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Many linguistic tools and methods are applied to biblical texts in order to gain meaning from them. Such applications do not always take into account the perspective of the investigators, the presuppositions of the methods used and the nature of the material to which it is applied. These are all factors that influence the meaning obtained from the text. Linguistic Analysis of Biblical Hebrew...

(synonyms, opposites, etc.), but also words which occur a number of times in the same context, words which rhyme with it, and even words which look like it or sound like it, in short, words which are associated with it in any way at all.’15 The associative field of a word moves beyond the semantic field of structural linguistics into the realm of cognitive science because some of the associations will be formed across the boundaries of the linguistic system in the world of individual experience:
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