[Mesorah] oni - ev'yon

[Ira L. Jacobson via Mesorah]

Klein agrees that the root is א-ב-ה .He states:אביון   אבה m.n. needy, poor. [Prob. from 
and orig. meaning ‘desirous, longing, 
yearning’, cp. Ugar. 'bjn. Late Egypt, 
and Coptic ebien are borrowed from 
Hebrew.] Derivative: . אבין 
 
.אֲנִי-שָׁלוֹם, וְכִי אֲדַבֵּר; הֵמָּה, לַמִּלְחָמָה
I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war. 
I'm all for peace, but the minute
     I tell them so, they go to war! 
I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war!
I am in favor of peace, but when I speak of it, all they want is war. 

(Ps. 120:7)
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    On Thursday, 8 September 2016 1:18 AM, Micha Berger via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
 

 Notice the relevance of Ben Zoma's definition of "ashir" to the 2nd half Rashi's definition of "evyon".Also, recall that Rashi held of 1 and 2 letter shorashim. To him, there could well be a common shoresh of alef-veis, not meant as a derashah.On 2016-09-07 1:50 pm, R Davidovich wrote:
Well, let's start with Rashi (15:4):אביון: דל מעני, ולשון אביון שהוא תאב לכל דבר: needy: Heb. אֶבְיוֹן, [denoting someone who is] poorer than an ע ָנִי. The term אֶבְיוֹן means"to yearn for" (תָּאֵב) , i.e., one who yearns for everything [because he has nothing]. — [Vayikra Rabbah 34:6, see B.M. 111b] 
Tir'u baTov!
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