[Avodah] Choshen

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 09:11 -0400, Micha Berger wrote:
> 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

This could be promising, since the Kohen Gadol had the names of all of
the tribes on his chest, presumably that was so they would be near to
his heart and he could empathize with them.

> 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.

Is lenacheish restricted to telling the future, or can it be broader?
After all, the Choshen did have the Urim v'Tumim, which was a form of
prophecy.

--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

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