[Avodah] Is it Hebrew or is it Aramaic?

[Zev Sero]

On 20/2/21 11:33 pm, Akiva Miller via Avodah wrote:
> Yesterday, I found yet another word in Onkelos that I thought was 
> Hebrew: The fabric "shesh" (shin-shin) appears in Bereshis 41:42 and 
> many times in Shemos from Terumah to the end. I checked five of them, 
> and Onkelos translates it consistently as "bootz" 
> (beis-vav-tzadi). "Bootz" seems to be another case of an Aramaic word 
> (as attested by Onkelos) which got adopted by Hebrew long after Chumash 
> days: It appears once in Yechezkel, twice in Esther, and 5 times in 
> Divrei Hayamim.

Note that in Esther 1:6, in the same pasuk where "bootz" is used to mean 
what the Chumash calls "shesh", "shesh" is used to mean "shayish", marble.

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