Results of a study of Semitic ROOTS

venicebard

Okay, here's probably the last of the iffy ones, the pen headed by the rune of shin:
venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE SECOND)

Then comes *sowela, vertical zig-zag
Rune-equivalent, whose back-and-forthing
Weaves lightning though it's named 'sun'
[*sowela, cogn. w/ Latin sol, means 'sun']:
Sawtooth-like, this lightning cleaves wood
[i.e. cuts wood when it strikes the oak],
Accounting for ten whole roots.
ShAG 1. roar (lion, thunder) 2. groan
ShUA (i.q. ShAH [see under XVI LaMaisonDieu above]) / destruction / 1. storm, tempest 2. destruction, ruin 3. ruins, desolate places [the last two relating really more to LaMaisonDieu] / ShVA evil as 1. iniquity, wickedness 2. calamity, destruction 3. worthlessness, vanity 4. falsehood, lie [all of which relates to the Adversary, above] / noise, tumult, clamor [relates back to 'storm, tempest']
II. [Sh(s)UR] to saw
Sh(s)NA Arab. shine, be bright (whence Heb. ShNY bright scarlet) [relates also to sight, fire's sense (see below)]
ShMSh 1. the sun 2. windows; or notches, battlements [relates to LaMaisonDieu] / +UN pr. name Samson [relates to LaMaisonDieu]
[Sh(s)OR] 1. shudder 2. fear, reverence [relates to high office, under shin=crown above] 3. sweep or tear away with a tempest / rage against, rush upon like a tempest / 1. storm, tempest 2. shuddering, horror / Sh(s)OYRYM showers
[Sh(s)PQ] 1. smite or clap the hands [we ourselves say 'thunderclap'] 2. suffice / strike or make a league with (or applaud?) / a smiting, chastisement [relates to LaMaisonDieu & Babel]
ShRB 1. heat (of sun) or drought (Syr. & Chald. be hot, dry) 2. mirage [relates also to next 'pen', fire's heat]
[Sh(s)RT] cut, make incisions / tear or hurt oneself / incision
Sh(s)RQ (adj.) bay (of horses) [i.e. sun-colored?]
See also ShSP cut, hew [under LaMaisonDieu above]

Now into coherence, "ss" as the hissing of fire:
. . . Afterwards,
Fire itself, which lightning causes,
Accounts for six roots, seventh being 'star',
The start of fire as an element aloft.
Arab. Sh(s)AR, ThAR be hot, boil up [yields Heb. Sh(s)AR leaven]
ShBB 1. Arab. kindle . . . / flame
ShDP Chald. scorch, burn (hence [ShZP] see, look upon [see below, under fire's sense, sight])
ShChN Arab. be hot, inflamed / boil, sore, ulcer
Sh(s)MCh 1. shine cheerfully (a candle) 2. be joyful . . . / cheer, gladden
Sh(s)RP 1. burn, consume 2. burn lamps or torches for the dead 3. burn or bake bricks / 1. species of venomous serpent [relates to the Adversary] 2. +YM serafim (order of angelic beings attending on the divine majesty)
ShThR (star) pr. name [stars being the fiery or radiant layer of matter]
Then fire's own sense, sight, which lightning
Lights, eats up thirteen roots,
Explaining the purpose of Babel's tower, [as watchtower]
[Sh(s)BR] view, examine / look or wait for, hope
ShGCh / to look
Sh(s)HD i.q. Syr. & Chald. SHD testify, bear witness / a witness
I. [ShUR] 1. see, view, behold 2. watch for / layer-in-wait, enemy [relates to Adversary again]
[ShZP] see, look upon, behold; (meton. of sun) looking, casting a glance
ShChR 1. be black 2. prop. do early, hence seek early, diligently / black / 1. dusk of morning (dawn); BN --- (Morning Star, our Lucifer [Adversary again?])2. at dawn, early 3. rise, origin . . . [all relating to sun/sol/*sowela]
Sh(s)KH (SKA Syr. look for, Chald. view, regard) / Sh(s)KU (watch-tower) pr. name (a place) / Sh(s)KYH a sight / MSh(s)KYH 1. image, figure 2. imagination, idea, thought
Sh(s)KL act wisely, prudently / act wisely, wittingly / 1. look at 2. consider, attend . . .
ShMR 1. keep, watch, guard; (part.) watchman . . . 4. keep, observe 5. keep commandments 6. take heed 7. regard, reverence . . . / M+ 1. watching 2. watch 3. custody . . . 4. observance, rite
ShOH 1. look at, regard with attention 2. look at with favor, regard graciously 3. look out or about (for help) 4. look away from, allow respite to / 1. look about with alarm 2. be dismayed
ShPH Arab. ShPA appear, become visible / (part.) conspicuous, lofty [relates to highness, under shin=crown above] / cheese / ShPY eminence, elevated place [relates to highness under shin=crown above]
[Sh(s)PN] cover, hide
Sh(s)QR Chald. SQR look; also stain, paint / wink, or paint the eyes
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE SECOND)

Indeed their bowed boughs resemble
A fountain's waters, and twice ten roots
Celebrate overflow, and the fat
Of abundance, and trains of hair and robe
Reminiscent thereof.
ShBL coll. with Arab. . . . (c) flow copiously / train (of robe), locks (of hair) / . . . 3. stream, flood
Sh(s)BO / satisfy, satiate / abundance, plenty / abounding, rich
ShUL 1. train (of robe) 2. hem (of garment)
ShUO (i.q. YShO) / 1. rich, opulent 2. liberal, noble [relates to high office, under shin=crown above]
ShUQ run after, desire / run over, overflow / cause to overflow (cogn. ([ShQQ] 1. run to & fro 2. be eager, greedy [or perhaps should be under serpent-adversary?])
[ShChH] swim / make swim, overflow
[Sh(s)TCh] spread abroad, expand, enlarge 2. strew, scatter
ShTP 1. wash away 2. wash, rinse 3. overflow, inundate, overwhelm; (and metaphorically)
Sh(s)ML Arab. cover with garment, wrap oneself in garment / garment
Sh(s)OR a hair, collect. hair / the hair / +H barley, as it grows / Sh(s)OYR 1. hairy 2. he-goat (+H she-goat) 3. pl. demons (relates to Adversary above)
Sh(s)PCh pour out / make to fall off (hair by disease) / M+ bloodshed
ShPK 1. pour out, (metphorically one's prayer, heart) 2. shed (blood) 3. throw up (mound) / be profusely expended (of money)
ShPO an overflowing, abundance / +H 1. overflowing or abundance of water 2. multitude (of camels)
[ShTzP] i.q. ShTP an overflowing
ShQH 1. give to drink, let drink 2. to water (cattle) 3. water, irrigate / be overflown / be moistened, refreshed / ShQTh drinking trough / M+ 1. drink 2. well-watered country [relates to Shinar above, as does 'water, irrigate']
[ShQO] 1. sink in water 2. be overflown 3. subside, abate (fire) / be submerged, subside / M+ pool, pond
ShThH 1. drink 2. banquet / ShThY 1. a drinking . . . [relates to inverse of uprightness (see above) and also perhaps to serpent-adversary]
ShThN make water
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE SECOND)

Then comes saille -- sallow or willow,
Its bardic name -- with about eight roots,
Including shin-qof-peh, 'be long
And bending from length': a better description
Of willow's boughs is hard to come by.
'Draw water' is there, too,
Which is what all willows are wont to do.
ShMNH the number 8 [number associated with the sign aries in the tree-calendar, which is where shin sits (on one's head) and indeed where it ends up when the initial order B-L-N-F-S is changed to ogam-order B-L-F-S-N] / 8-stringed instrument; or octave
[ShAB] draw water [ cogn. with: ]
ShAP draw in (air, wind) / 1. gasp 2. . . . (trop.) pant for
[ShUCh] 1. sink down 2. be bowed down, depressed / 1. pit 2. dungeon 3. grave
[ShChH] bow, stoop down / depress / 1. prostrate oneself, sorship . . . [relates also to high office and perhaps Babylon, above]
[ShChCh] 1. bow, stoop down 2. be bowed, brought low, depressed 3. humble oneself, submit [same comment]
ShNB Arab. be cool [i.e. shaded?] / A+ latticed window
ShQP Arab. Sh(s)QP to cover (Gr. skepaw [w=omega]), also to be long and bending from length / 1. look out, abroad [relates to sight (fire's sense), above] 2. (of mtn.) overhang, look towards . . . / MShQUP lintel (timber over doorposts) [according to Graves, when the letter-calendar is arranged about the dolmen with the vowels as the threshold, saille begins the lintel]
Sh(s)RO only part. Sh(s)RUO stretched out, prolongued, i.e. having any member too long, unnaturally grown out / stretch oneself out
. . . There follow
A dozen or so that mean 'interweave',
Which is what you do with willow's boughs,
Sh(s)BK (iq SBK) interweave / 1. net 2. network 3. lattice
ShBTz Syr. mingle, interweave; Arab. be interwoven, intricate
Sh(s)UG iq SUG hedge about
ShZR Arab. twist / ShSh MShZR twined linen
[Sh(s)UK, SUK] hedge in, fence; (others) twist, weave / a bough
ShLB Chald. join together / +YM joinings, edges, borders
ShOTNZ a cloth made of different threads, of wool and flax together
Sh(s)QQ (nu) prob. iq ZQQ to strain Ethiop. SQSQ lattice / Sh(s)Q 1. sackcloth 2. a sack (for grain)
Sh(s)RG / be interwoven
Sh(s)RK / part. M++Th twisting, winding her course / Sh(s)RUK shoe-latchet / 1. vine (of choice quality) . . . / Sh(s)RUGYM shoots, tendrils (of vine)
ShRR (only part.) adversary, enemy [woops, I guess this should go primarily under serpent-adversary] Syr. be firm, Gesenius supposes prim. meaning to be 'twist, press together (comp. TzRR), hence to oppress / navel (prop. navel cord, Gesen.) / ShR 1. sinew, muscle 2. navel / ShRH a chain
(ShThY 1. a drinking [above under fountain-abundance] is also 2. warp of web, Arab. to fix warp to loom; Syr. weave)
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE SECOND)

Followed by the shushing, quieting breeze
That passes through them: fifteen in that one.
ShAN / be quiet / 1. quiet, at peace 2. at ease, careless, proud 3. wantonness, pride [relates to Babel, above]
ShON 1. lean or rest on 2. (met.) trust in . . . 4. recline
([ShOO] be overspread, closed [under the covers?])
ShBN Arab. be tender, delicate
ShBCh 1. soothe, calm, quiet . . .
(ShBO 1. card. numb. 7 . . . / 1. week . . . [one rests on the sabbath])
ShBTh 1. rest from labor . . . 2. cease, desist . . . 5. keep the sabbath / . . . 2. restrain, still
[Sh(s)UCh] meditate, or converse; iq Sh(s)YCh] 1. speak 2. complain, lament 3. meditate / thought, purpose
ShVO cry for help [this being what is shushed, but relating of course to all the calamitous subheadings above]
ShKN 1. lie down, rest 2. rest, abide, continue / M+ . . . 3. sacred tabernacle
[ShLH, ShLV] 1. be quiet, at ease, enjoy prosperity . . . / Chald. ShLH be at ease / ShYLH 1. Shiloh, pacificator, or bringer of peace, i.e. the Messiah
ShLM 1. be entire, i.e. sound, safe . . . 3. be at peace / . . . 2. make peace w/ 3. cause to be at peace w/ / . . . 5. peaceable, at peace 6. pr. name Salem (Jarusalem) / Chald. peace, prosperity / peace-offering / etc.
ShMTz (Arab. . . . speak rapidly; hence short, gentle sound, a whispering; (Lee: ) a hint
ShQT 1. rest, be quiet, undisturbed 2. rest from 3. be inactive 4. be silent / 1. give rest 2. to quiet, still 3. be quiet / rest, quiet (subst.)
[ShThQ] be still, rest, abate (waves, strife)

. . . and there I rest my case (for shin).
 

venicebard

CANTO THE THIRD (part one)

"Reysh is growled shakiness."
What might one have meant by this?
It summarizes sumptuous wealth
Of meaning. Reysh is bardic elder,
About which English folklore says
To burn it brings the devil in!
For this is numbered fifteen
In medieval Irish lit,
Whose trump is titled LeDiable.
I've 'penned' its meanings into these
Subdivisions.

____________First, based
On square-Hebrew's having reysh
Extend out from the top-most point
On its upright staff, and on the fact
That here we have the body-mind
(Of the seven minds which selves can use) --
Which thinks (at least in man) it needs
No guidance from the inner self
To see, but only blind sensation --
Are gathered roots that mean 'be high'
And indicate that it usurps
The ruling place in man's demeanor,
In place of reason and self-knowledge,
The latter sought through sense, not thought
(In man).

_________Next, shamanic 'vision',
Sight, substitute-wisdom, stems
From reysh's shape in runic writing,
The animal headdress of the priest
Or shaman.

__________Next, the Egyptian form
(Its hieroglyph), a mouth, conveys
Connexion to the element water,
The triad that unloads its wash
Into the lowest point of the round,
Here at libra where reysh once stood
And stands yet now when meditation
Quiets R's rebellion.
 

venicebard

(CANTO THE THIRD, part two)

_________________Next,
Roots gather around the pole
Of carnal love's fertility,
Based on reysh's most likely
Place amongst the pairs of opposites
Listed in Sefer Yetzirah,
Fruitfulness and sterility,
Which lead one to believe its shape
To represent the male organ
Along with the channel feeding in
To join its stream from the testicles,
Its most likely physiological
Correlation being the testicles
(In man, the ovaries in woman).

Next we have the Greek form
Of R, whose shape is a stick horse
And refers to shamanic journeying,
Whose steed is drumming; here gather
Roots having to do with horses
And traveling.

_____________Then we come round
To Tifinag and Libyan,
Where R is simply an empty circle,
Indicating the year has come
Full circle, having lost the dot
That was its center and formed the sun
(Birch-month B begins the year,
At least in Libyan, with said dot
To make alchemy's symbol sol):
Here gather the roots that mean
The weakness and fatigue of spirit
Found at the end, since elder's month
Caps the year.

_____________And next gather
(Under the label of its tree)
The roots suggesting medicine
And what it treats, since ruis the elder
Is a medicinal tree as well as
One signifying the death or end
Of the year.

___________And next, since medicine
Is alchemy -- the 'black art' --
And based on English folklore's quip
And the number given R in Irish,
R's trump, XV LeDiable,
Heads a list of roots conveying
Man's inhumanity to man:
Oppression, which the chains suggest,
Along with destruction and the greed
Or materialism fueling it.

Whereupon we come to guttural
R, the growl of the hell-hound,
Heading a list of roots that speak
Of trembling, shaking, roaring (rage).

And last are gathered a group of roots
Conveying death and means of slaying,
This since ogam-consaine places
R at the end, R being
The last of the thirteen months of the year.

And once these 'pens' contain their 'sheep',
There are none left that do not fit
More or less readily into one
Or another of them, although a few
May seem just slightly stretched; still,
All in all a coherent bunch,
Much more easily penned than if
The language under study here
Bore no actual relation
To bardic ties and the letter links
Suggested by R's other forms.
Indeed this truth repeats itself
In letter after letter, utterly
Awing even the one that seeks
Such patterns out: did I expect
To find coherence on this scale?

Much I am learning about the jist
Of each great tree whose sound we speak,
Nuances rich and subtleties
I had not grasped without the help
Of the poets who composed biblical
Verses and the scholarship
That gathered etymologies
To show the imprint of each root
Thereon. Perhaps Semitic language
In its entirety would not yield
Such rich clarity in its roots
As could alert one to its link
With the bardic science treating sounds
Of speech: but certainty it is
That those who wrote those verses held
In high esteem by both Jews
And gentile Christians were neither fools
Nor common rhetoricians, no,
But trained bards, whose knowledge shows
The Hebrew strand of the same tradition,
Handed down from the distant past
Of man, that bards in Ireland knew
And of which they preserved the best
And most essential doctrines lost
To Jewish learning, whilst the latter
Preserved a set of shapes for sounds
That form the complete set of powers
Man can wield and show which place
In human physiology
Each awakens, once the order
Of letters is restored to one
Consistent with what poets once
Knew (when poets were the ones
To whom man turned for understanding).



____________
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE THIRD)

____________First, based
On square-Hebrew's having reysh
Extend out from the top-most point
On its upright staff, and on the fact
That here we have the body-mind
(Of the seven minds which selves can use) --
Which thinks (at least in man) it needs
No guidance from the inner self
To see, but only blind sensation --
Are gathered roots that mean 'be high'
And indicate that it usurps
The ruling place in man's demeanor,
In place of reason and self-knowledge,
The latter sought through sense, not thought
(In man).
[RAM] be high / --, RAYM, RYM oryx; or buffalo; (Sept.: ) unicorn
RASh 1. head 2. chief 3. chief city 4. summit 5. 1st principle, beginning
I. [RBB] be/become many / RB, RBH many, much
[RBH] 1. be/become many 2. be/become great (grow up)
RUM 1. be high, lofty 2. rise, be lifted, raise oneself 3. be raised, made high 4. (met.) be high, exalted (in power or rank); be lifted up, elated w/ pride. Part. (a) high, lofty, tall (b) lifted up; of the voice, loud (c) (met.) high, powerful, mighty; elated w/ pride, haughty; high, difficult / (m.) 1. height, elevation 2. a lifting up (of eyes, heart, i.e. haughtiness, pride)
RZN (Arab. be weighty [based on R's proper station being libra or straight down, no doubt]) only part. RUZN chief, prince / RZUN prince
TChL (f.) ewe; then a sheep generally / (ewe) pr. name Rachel [related to aries the ram, meaning straight up towards the head]
[RMM] 1. iq RUM be high, lofty 2. Arab. to rot, hence / RMH worm, collect. worms / [Niph.] lift oneself up, rise up / RMUN 1. pomegranate 2. its tree 3. pr. name (2 cities, a rock, a Syr. idol, a man, a station of the Israelites in the desert)
RShH Chald. RShA be able, have permission / RShYUN grant, give permission
_________Next, shamanic 'vision',
Sight, substitute-wisdom, stems
From reysh's shape in runic writing,
The animal headdress of the priest
Or shaman.
RAH 1. see; esp. see the sun, live; see a vision, hence part. a seer, prophet 2. regard, observe 3. visit . . . / (m.) 1. (part. act.) seer; prophet 2. vision (Is. 28.7) / RAY mirror (Job 37.18) . . . (m.) 1. vision, revelation 2. sight, view 3. spectacle, gazing-stock / RAUBN (behold a son) Reuben
RMLYHU (whom the Lord has adorned, coll. w/ Arab.) pr. name of father of Pekah, king of Israel
RTzD Arab. observe, watch narrowly . . . lurk, watch stealthily . . . but also hop, leap, skip, jump [which relates to the vibrating or shaking "rrr" or growl]
RTzO pierce, bore through (Ex. 21.6) / M+ an awl [for making eye-holes in the mask, both physically and symbolically]
([RQM] embroider, weave w/ different colored strands)
__________Next, the Egyptian form
(Its hieroglyph), a mouth, conveys
Connexion to the element water,
The triad that unloads its wash
Into the lowest point of the round,
Here at libra where reysh once stood
And stands yet now when meditation
Quiets R's rebellion.
RHT Syr. run, flow / 1. watering trough 2. locks, curls
[RVH] be/become satiated w/ drink / to satiate
[RUR] flow (trans. emit) / RYR saliva, spittle (1 Sa. 21.14); poetically slaver or slime of yoke (i.e. white of an egg) . . .
RChSh boil up, throw up (as a fountain) / M+ +Th (f.) pot, kettle (for boiling)
[RTB] be wet / moist, fresh
RYB 1. contend, strive, quarrel . . . / 1. quarrel, contention, strife . . . / M+ +H 1. contention, strife 2. & 3. pr. name (fountains in desert [from the turbulence of their waters?])
[RSS] 1. moisten, sprinkle 2. break in pieces / RSYSYM 1. dew-drops 2. fractures
[ROB] 1. be hungry 2. suffer famine, famish 3. hunger after [geodetic significance of R-hieroglyph is Upper Egypt, which depends on Lower Egypt, the hieroglyph loaf, for its food]
ROH 1. feed, pasture (flock) 2. (trop.) lead, rule, govern [relates to R as usurping ruler, above]; also feed, nourish . . .
RPSDUTh (f. pl.) floats, rafts (etym. uncert.)
II. RQQ iq YRQ to spit / RQ spittle
RThCh / [Pi.] make boil / [Pu.] boil, be agitated [relates thus also to shaking "rrr"]
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE THIRD)

_________________Next,
Roots gather around the pole
Of carnal love's fertility,
Based on reysh's most likely
Place amongst the pairs of opposites
Listed in Sefer Yetzirah,
Fruitfulness and sterility,
Which lead one to believe its shape
To represent the male organ
Along with the channel feeding in
To join its stream from the testicles,
Its most likely physiological
Correlation being the testicles
(In man, the ovaries in woman).
[RBD] spread, strew, make up (bed)
RBK Arab. to mix [relates also to medicine, see below]
RBL Arab. be muck, fertile, abundant [hence 'fertility versus sterility' in Sefer Yetzirah?]
I. [RBO] lie w/ / copulate
[RDD] (prop. to spread out [surely related to [RBD] above]) to prostrate, subdue / to overlay w/ metal / RDYD a wide mantle
RDH 1. tread (winepress) [surely related to 'spread' and 'spread out' ([RBD] and [RDD]), above] 2. subdue, rule over [relates to usurping ruler, above] 3. take [relates to avarice of XV LeDiable, below]
[RChM] to love / love tenderly, pity, have compassion or mercy upon / obtain mercy . . . / the womb / 1. womb 2. maiden . . . / +H maiden

(to be continued)
 

venicebard

(carnal love, continued)

[RNN] 1. shout for joy 2. call out (in invitation) 3. cry out (for help) (Gesenius: to wail) / 1. shout, sing, rejoice 2. sing, celebrate, praise / +H (f.) 1. singing, rejoicing 2. pl. (+YM!) ostriches (Job 29.13) [I include this root here as it connects to RTzH (delight, take pleasure in), below]
RON be green, covered w/ leaves (Job 15.32; Ca. 1.16) / +N 1. green, flourishing (of trees); met. of prosperity 2. fresh (spoken of oil, Ps. 92.11) [I include this here as it relates to fertility]
[RPD] strew, spread (Job 41.22) / 1. spread (a bed) 2. stay, refresh
RPSh mud, mire [remember the song-title 'Green Sleeves' (i.e. from grass-stains) and also the connexion betwixt muck and fecundity (of soil)]
RTzH 1. delight, take pleasure in, be well pleased with 2. accept graciously 3. associate, be in friendship with 4. be pleased to do 5. satisfy, discharge / Hithp. make oneself acceptable, pleasing / RTzUN . . . 2. object of delight
 

venicebard

venicebard said:
(from CANTO THE THIRD)

Next we have the Greek form
Of R, whose shape is a stick horse
And refers to shamanic journeying,
Whose steed is drumming; here gather
Roots having to do with horses
And traveling.
RBQ Arab. fasten / M+ a stall
RGL (f.) 1. foot 2. step, pace / go about slandering, backbiting [relates to LeDiable, below] / explore / teach to walk, lead by the hand (a child) [note that this root ends in lamedh, which I have always said is a child learning to walk, that is, swinging its arms, seen from above]
RUD 1. wander, rove 2. walk
RVCh (cogn. RUCh) (prop. be airy, spacious, wide); only impers. YRVCh LY I am relieved / Pu. part. spacious, wide (Je. 22.14) / relief, enlargement (Est. 4.14) 2. space, distance (Ge. 32.17)
RUCh (Kal. not used) / Hiph. HRYCh 1. to smell; met. smell or touch water (Ju. 16.9); also scent, perceive, as a horse the battle (Job 39.25) 2. constr. with B smell with pleasure; hence gen. enjoy, delight in [relates to carnal love and LeDiable's acquisitiveness] / 1. air, breeze [wind in one's face?] 2. breath; met. vanity, folly 3. spirit, soul 4. mind, spirit, disposition 5. spirit of God 6. wind; also tempest, hurricane 7. wind, side, quarter (of heavens) 8. anger, wrath (from idea of breathing, snuffing) / RYCh odor, scent, smell / RChTh (f.) winnowing fan / YR[Y]ChU (place of fragrance) Jericho
[RUTz] run; part. pl. runners, couriers
RChB be/become wide, large, spacious / Niph. part. large, extended / Hiph. HRChYB 1. make wide, broad, enlarge 2. w/ L make room for 3. open wide (as mouth [relating thus to hieroglyph]) 4. (intrans.) be enlarged, great (Ps. 25.17) / adj. (m., +H f.) 1. wide, broad, large, spacious 2. pr. name Rahab (a harlot of Jericho [thus relating to carnal love, above]) / 1. width, breadth 2. largeness, w/ LB largeness of understanding, comprehensive same (1 Ki. 5.9) [this being the ultimate purpose of the shamanic or spiritual journey]
RChQ 1. go far away, recede 2 be far off, distant, remote / (adj.) going far away, departing (Ps. 73.27) / RChUQ adj. (m., +H f.) 1. far off, remote, distant 2. far above (e.g. in value)
RKB to ride (on back of animal or in chariot) [this is the meaning of the name of R's rune]; part. rider, horseman; met. of God riding, being born (upon the clouds, etc.) / 1. a rider; collect. riders, cavalry 2. chariot, collect. chariots 3. also chariot horses 4. upper millstone (lit. rider) / M+ (m.) 1. chariot 2. seat thereof / M+ +H (f.) a chariot [Merkabah]
[RKL] go about / part. trader, merchant / +H trade, traffic / RKYL talebearing, slandering [once again related to LeDiable, below]
[RKSh] species of swift horse (Syr. a horse, esp. a stallion)
RMCh lance, spear [lance being the horseman's pre-eminent weapon]
[RMK] a mare (Est. 8.10)
[RMSh(s)] 1. creep (of reptiles [relating to LeDiable?]) 2. move (of any living creature) / 1. reptile/s 2. that which moves (on the earth), any land animal (opp. to fowls); once of water animals
[RPTh] (m.) stall (for cattle)
[RTzA] iq RUTz run (Eze. 1.14)