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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The answer is yes.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">First of all, it is crystal clear that in theT'NaKh, the noun ba‘al can refer to both husband and owner. I should not have to bring examples, but see in Gen. 33:19 about ba‘al hah.alomot, and see Ge.20:3 about a woman
who is married called b‘ulat ba‘al, that clearly is not about whether she had intimate relations.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">If the noun had both meanings (and it still does in L'shon Chazal), it is only natural to assume that the verb would be used in both meanings, even if one could prove (I do not know how) that one meaning is the original
and the other denominative.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">But, in point of fact, the verb is clearly used at least in some instances in the meaning of "owner, one who possesses. See the following two verses from Y'sha‘yah and their Targum:</p>
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In both verses it is clear that there is not any sexual imagery intended.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Mesorah <mesorah-bounces@lists.aishdas.org> on behalf of Micha Berger via Mesorah <mesorah@lists.aishdas.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 13, 2018 12:17 PM<br>
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<div class="PlainText">I started by asking was Chazal's usage of \áòì\ as old as Yeshaiah.<br>
Answer: yes. RSM cited eishes yefas to'ar and åàçø ëï úáåà àìéä åáòìúä<br>
åäéúä ìê ìàùä.<br>
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Now I want to ask the reverse question: Is this shoresh used as a verb<br>
ever to mean anything else?<br>
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If the answer is "no", then we'd have to assume TY and the peirushim<br>
are not giving precise translations, no?<br>
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