Flow; spring; bubble up. The Triliteral Root of the Day from OCABS, in Hebrew and Arabic, with passages from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan.
Show Notes
נ-ב-ע (nun–bet–ʿayin) / ن–ب–ع (nūn–bāʾ–ʿayn)
Flow; spring; bubble up
In the Hebrew Bible: nabaʿ, flow · mabbuaʿ, spring
In the Qurʾan: yanbūʿ, a spring
Sound-law correspondence and an explicit cognate link. Each radical answers its like, letter for letter; no shift is needed.
Passages
- Proverbs 15:28: The heart of the righteous weighs answers, but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
- Ecclesiastes 10:1: Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
- Isaiah 35:7: The burning sand will become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Grass with reeds and rushes will be in the habitation of jackals, where they lay.
- John 4:6: Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
- James 3:11: Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
- Acts 4:18: They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
- Sūrat al-ʾIsrāʾ سورة الإسراء “The Night Journey” 17:90: And they say: We will not put faith in thee till thou cause a spring to gush forth from the earth for us;
- Sūrat al-Zumar سورة الزمر “The Troops” 39:21: Hast thou not seen how Allah hath sent down water from the sky and hath caused it to penetrate the earth as watersprings, and afterward thereby produceth crops of divers hues; and afterward they wither and thou seest them turn yellow; then He maketh them chaff. Lo! herein verily is a reminder for men of understanding.
The whole card on ocabs.org · The Consolation of Consonants
Opening music: Touchia Ḥijāz, Thami Ben Abdelkrim, violin, with percussion (Morocco, 1920s), public domain. Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF, Archives de la Parole.
What is Triliteral Root of the Day?
Every day, one Semitic triliteral root heard in three scriptures: the root in Hebrew and Arabic, how it functions, and a passage from the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Qurʾan, read in the original languages with the English. Two or three minutes a day, from OCABS on the Ephesus School Network.