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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Date: Tue, 11
Jan 2011 08:07:05 -0500<BR>From: "M Cohen" <</FONT><A
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Na<BR>Message-ID: <</FONT><A
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charset="us-ascii"<BR><BR>this week's parsha has the word Na twice.<BR><BR>once
it means please (speak to pharaoh)<BR>the other time it means raw (korban
pesach)<BR><BR>the word is spelled identically - what is the connection between
two?<BR><BR>mordechai cohen</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I checked this in the BDB (Brown Driver Briggs
lexicon of biblical Hebrew). The root of 'na' in the meaning of 'raw' is
nun-yod-alef, unlike the 'na' which is a supplication.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kol tuv,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Simi Peters </DIV>
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