Camel or Rope? Matt: 19:24

[Stephen Silver]

BTW, Stephen, the possible meanings of the consonantal [font="estrangelo (v1.1)"]0lmg[/font] are :

1. "Doing good or evil"
2. "Camel driver"
3. "Camelopard"
4. "Ass driver"
5. "One walking forward and backward"
6. "Bestowment"
7. "Dromedary"
8. "a couple"
9. "Teaming arrangement"
10. " A small bridge"
11. "Crossboard"
12. "A large thing"
13. "Gamala in Galilee"
14. "Gamaliel" (abbrev.)
15. "Camel"
16. "A beam"
17. large ant Syr.
18.n.m. "portion of leg"

Are all these acceptable as the meaning of our Lord's "elegant simplicity" for one word- [font="estrangelo (v1.1)"]0lmg[/font] in His analogy about the kingdom of God?

Dave

Shlama Akhi David:
That's a junk list. And no, I'm referring to the elegant, "simplicity of Christ" (II Corinthians 11:3 and 1:12). Also, I was obviously only referring to the acceptable Lexicon meanings of "camel, which could be a dromedary" and "beam" in the only places in the Peshitta New Testament where they are used, namely, Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25 and Luke 18:25.
It's obvious that your list includes non-contextual, obscure and questionable meanings and they would not be appropriately used in the text of Matthew 19:24. As we all can see the use of "gamal" in Matthew 19:24 must be contextual. By including Gamaliel and Gamala as well as many obscure meanings the whole exercise becomes meaningless, Akhi David. I'm finished with this thread.

Shlama,
Stephen P. Silver
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