A Cognitive Semantic Study of Biblical Hebrew: The Root slm for Completeness-Balance

Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb

have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form

. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and completeness form the basic semantic structure of

.

Previous studies on

employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.