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(sansinnāyw; Song of Songs 7:9) and the Palpal Noun Pattern
- Journal of Biblical Literature
- Society of Biblical Literature
- Volume 133, Number 4, 2014
- pp. 751-756
- 10.1353/jbl.2014.0058
- Article
- Additional Information
The word (sansinnāyw; Song 7:9) is a hapax legomenon, and there is no scholarly consensus about its meaning. It has been variously identified as denoting the branches of a date palm, clusters of dates, or the blossoms or the fruit of a date palm. The word sansinnāyw belongs to the class of noun pattern termed palpal (). This article maintains that some of the words of the palpal noun pattern share a common semantic characteristic. This characteristic enables one to determine the precise meaning of the word a fruit-laden cluster of dates.