[Avodah] Choshen

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> I had my student look into it:
> 
> the meaning is unknown. bdb speculates it is from Arabic "beautiful", "an 
> ornament"

A Hebrew word can't have come from Arabic.   It may be cognate to an
Arabic word, both deriving from a common ancestor, but Arabic isn't old
enough to have influenced Biblical Hebrew, or even Mishnaic Hebrew.


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