Dean Snyder wrote:
Even in Biblical Hebrew, "houses" would usually be "btym". Certainly in modern.Phoenician Hebrew 1st Millenium BC 2nd Millenium AD
ykbd ykbd both = "he will honor"
tbrk tbrk both = "she will bless"
bqsh bqsh both = "he searched for"
btm btm both = "houses"
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~mark