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There is no equivalent for the word “thing” in biblical Hebrew. The word “davar,” which in later Hebrew came to denote thing, means in biblical Hebrew: speech; word; message; report; tidings; advice; request; promise; decision; sentence; theme, story; saying, utterance; business, occupation; acts; good deeds; events; way, manner, reason, cause; but never “thing.” Is this a sign of linguistic poverty, or rather an indication of an unwarped view of the world, or not equating reality (derived from the Latin word res, thing) with thinghood? - p. 7 of Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man (Farrar, Straus and Giroux: New York, 1951)
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:14:05 +0000

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