2006: Desecration and Flutes in Hebrew Jun 12, 2020
Although Hebrew has some doublets which are not semantically linked, including the root כבש (K-B-Sh) giving way to 'pickle' and 'highway', but in other similar cases, there is a reason that can be derived. For instance, the words for 'to desecrate' לחלל (l'khalal) and 'flute' חליל are related. This is not because flutes are unholy in any way, but that what we translate as 'desecrate' in Hebrew really has a meaning closer to being 'empty'; חלל also means 'space' as in outer-space.
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