[Avodah] V'al HaPurkan

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 02:51:32AM +0000, Allan Engel wrote:
: Am I right to assume (from the consonant cluster and also Yekum
: Purkan) that the word 'Purkan' is Aramaic?

The shoresh is found in Hebrew too. E.g. Bereishis 27:40, "ufaraqra ulo
mei'al tzavarekha". Or Shemos 32:2 "Vayomer eilehem Aharon: pirqu nizmei
hazahav...." (also pesuqim 3 and 24), and I'm sure your concordance
shows more occurances of the shoresh.

The binyan might be the same as "shulchan", I don't know. But the
consonant clustering is shared.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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