[Mesorah] Tekiaseinu

[Akiva Miller]

Thank you all for your wonderful responses. I am totally fascinated by how
very the flexible Hebrew language is in these regards. The same word can be
noun or verb, and it is often difficult to tell the difference. Not only in
this form (tekia, achila, ketiva, etc) but in others too (tokea, ochel,
kotev, etc).

I hope to write more tonight, but right now I only have time for this:

RSM seems to say that all three English translators that i quoted got it
wrong. Not "the sound of our blasts", but "the sound of our blowing." I'm
convinced.

RIJ: Teka' is fairly common in other contexts too: teka and sheka are plug
and socket. They differ only in their first letter. Gotta look for
something in RSRH on that.

Kol tuv for now,
Akiva Miller



On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 1:14 PM Ira L. Jacobson via Mesorah <
mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:

>
>
> *At 03-10-19 at 07:31, Zev Sero via Mesorah stated the following: *
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> I believe "tekiaseinu" in that phrase is a verb, not a noun; i.e. it
> refers not to the blasts but to the act of blowing, which is singular. "Kol
> tekiaseinu" is thus "the sound of our blowing".
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> In fact, as noted by Even Shoshan, *teqi`a* is a noun with two meanings:
> 1.  The production of a long sound with a wind instrument;
> 2.  The extended sound produced by the shofar on the Days of Awe, as
> contrasted with *teru`a* and *shevarim*.
>
> There is also an apparently unrelated meaning: viz., inserting an object
> into another object.  (As in Yehezqel 23: teqi`at sakin . . . baqarka.)
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