[Avodah] Choshen

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:35:35PM -0400, Silverman, Philip B wrote:
: SBA asked about the background of the world "Choshen," and some folks
: have responded with interesting answers.
: I'm curious if any grammarians out there have focused on the two-letter
: root "ches-shin" with a nun suffix.

Well, here's what I found on possible 3 letter roots based on a possible
/ch-sh/ underlying root

CSH - chashah: silent or unresponsive (just hit me -- Chushim ben Dan,
who was deaf, could be named from the same shoresh as "yecheshu")

CSM (Chashum) - personal name in Ezra and Nechemiah

CSN - nidon didan

CSS (doubling the middle letter) - straw / chaff or dust

CVS/CYS (chush, chish) - hurry

CVS (chush) - to feel

YCS (yachas) - geneology (as spelled in Nechamiah 7:6)

NCS - bronze / bold / snake / hiss / tell the future (lenacheish)

That last one is promising. But that would make choshen as a permissable
form of lenacheish, a potentially huge topic.

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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