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On 03/04/2013 07:20 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I made this word up for Leviticus 11. In modern Hebrew, =D7=AA=D7=90=D7=
=95 means buffalo,
> including both Syncerus (jonjirnybakni) and Bubalus (bakrbubalu), but
> apparently not Bison (visnda), which is =D7=91=D7=99=D7=96=D7=95=D7=9F. W=
hat does it mean in Biblical
> Hebrew?
>
> Pierre
Sorry, I can't find =D7=AA=D7=90=D7=95 anyplace in Leviticus 11.  Oh wait, =
found it, in=20
Deut. 14:5.  It's always a problem trying to translate these sorts of=20
specific nouns from Biblical Hebrew.  Without a continuous tradition, or=20
contemporary witness, it's very difficult to say what precisely most of=20
these words mean.  Many of them are hapax legomena as well (as I think=20
this may be).

I have a Torah translation that's pretty thorough about collecting=20
sources for this kind of thing ("The Living Torah" by Rabbi Aryeh=20
Kaplan).  He says:

"bison: Te'o in Hebrew, cf. Isaiah 4:5.  That is, the "wild ox" (Targum=20
Yonathan, Sifri, Rashi, Ibn Janach, Radak, Sherashim).  The Septuagint=20
translates it as oruga or orux, either the oryx, a large straight horned=20
antelope, or the aurochs, the "wild ox."  Saadia also identifies it with=20
oryx, tethal in Arabic.  Chizzkuni renders it as shulia."

Huh.  Usually I can count on him for some Linnean binomials even, but I=20
guess the "wild ox" is just Bos taurus.

~mark

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