<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:24px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23687">Klein agrees that the root is א-ב-ה .</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23657" dir="ltr">He states:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23703" dir="rtl" align="left">אביון אבה m.n. needy, poor. [Prob. from <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23649">and orig. meaning ‘desirous, longing, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23650">yearning’, cp. Ugar. 'bjn. Late Egypt, <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23651">and Coptic ebien are borrowed from <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23652">Hebrew.] Derivative: . אבין <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23655"><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23653"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23587" class="signature"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23586"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23585" class="gmail_signature"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23584" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23583"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23582"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23581" dir="ltr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23605"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23604" color="#000099"><br><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">.אֲנִי-שָׁלוֹם, וְכִי אֲדַבֵּר; הֵמָּה, לַמִּלְחָמָה</font><br><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23603" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;">I am a man of peace; but when I speak, they are for war. <br>I'm all for peace, but the minute<br> I tell them so, they go to war! <br>I search for peace; but when I speak of peace, they want war!<br>I am in favor of peace, but when I speak of it, all they want is war. <br><br>(Ps. 120:7)<br></span></font></div><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23580" style="font-family:tahoma, sans-serif;"><font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23579" color="#000099" size="2">mailto: <a id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1473311503315_23578" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:laser@ieee.org">laser@ieee.org</a></font></span></div></div></span></div></div></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Thursday, 8 September 2016 1:18 AM, Micha Berger via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6636697082"><div>
<div>Notice the relevance of Ben Zoma's definition of "ashir" to the 2nd half Rashi's definition of "evyon".</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div class="yiv6636697082yqt3530283080" id="yiv6636697082yqtfd26017"><div>On 2016-09-07 1:50 pm, R Davidovich wrote:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Well, let's start with Rashi (15:4):
<div><span class="yiv6636697082gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:#000000;font-family:'arial hebrew', arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right;">אביון: </span><span class="yiv6636697082gmail-co_RashiText" style="color:#000000;font-family:'arial hebrew', arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right;">דל מעני, ולשון אביון שהוא תאב לכל דבר:</span></div>
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<div><span class="yiv6636697082gmail-co_RashiText" style="color:#000000;font-family:'arial hebrew', arial;font-size:14px;line-height:21px;text-align:right;"><span class="yiv6636697082gmail-co_RashiTitle" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:arial;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;">needy: </span><span class="yiv6636697082gmail-co_RashiText" style="font-family:arial;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;">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]</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">Tir'u baTov!<br clear="none"> -Micha</div>
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