[Sabertooth]

I'm saying that there are many places where the same word is used in different ways. This is no less true of Hebrew than it is of English. The sense of the use is determined by the context in which the word is found.

Gotcha, and I agree.

I would add that the context which informs us as to the meaning of a word is more than just the text in which it occurs... it is also in the subtext in the surrounding circumstances.

An statement like, "What an idiot" might be an insult or it might be a joke, depending on the reationships between the speaker, the listener, and the person being spoken of. But we can't know which from the text. True?

[aruanan]

Es la verdad.