[Mesorah] Tekiaseinu

[Mandel, Seth]

As I said, there is nothing really wrong with translating t'qi‘ah as "blast." But for those asking grammatical questions (such as why is it not in the plural) one has to go back to the origin of the form.
Teqa‘ is modern Hebrew, one of the more successful inventions of ha'Aqademiyya lalLashon ha‘Ivri for the modern term "plug."  There was no need for such a term before electic wiring, so all languages had to invent a term.  For example, the English word "plug" meant something else entirely until it was adopted for the new-fangled electical invention.

Rabbi Dr. Seth Mandel

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From: Mesorah <mesorah-bounces at lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Akiva Miller via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 3, 2019 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mesorah] Tekiaseinu

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<mailto:mesorah at lists.aishdas.org>> wrote:
At 03-10-19 at 07:31, Zev Sero via Mesorah stated the following:

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".


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.)

Ira L. Jacobson


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