[Avodah] Eilah and Elu

[Zev Sero]

On 18/2/19 11:09 pm, Toby Katz via Avodah wrote:
> What is the difference between "eileh" (aleph-lamed-hei) and "eilu" 
> (aleph-lamed-vov)?  Both mean "these."  My husband wants to know.  I 
> don't believe there is any difference in meaning, but he thinks there 
> must be.  I think the difference might just be stylistic (like the 
> difference between "lahem" and "lamo" which both mean "to them" except 
> "lamo" is poetic).  Or perhaps there is some grammatical or dikduk 
> difference, like the beged kefes letters that get a dagesh or don't get 
> a dagesh, depending on what is else is around them.  There is also 
> another word that means "these" -- the word "halalu."  What determines 
> which "these" is used when?

Eileh is Biblical, Eilu and Halalu are Mishnaic.


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