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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Why do QUESTION and GRAVE have the same root

Chaim Vogt-Moykopf v32n47 asks why the word for QUESTION and GRAVE both
come from the same root Sh-A-L

First I believe that the proper translation of ShOLAH is HELL.

Then it is simple---HELL is that state where you constantly ASK for
things--it is an emotional state of total anxiety.

In passing similar etymologies occur in eg POOR comes from the same
rootas ANSWER (The poor person has to ANSWER to everybody) (Also cf POOR
and ACQUIESE from A-V-H---the poor person has to acquiesce to everybody)

Russell Jay Hendel; Phd ASA RHendel@Towson.edu
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