disc▪ DRS 9 (2010)#ḤLM connects the notion of ‘gentleness, clemency; insight, discernment, reason, wisdom’ etc. (↗ḥilm) as being dependent on having reached ‘puberty, sexual maturity’. This sounds not impossible; etymologically, however, it is not necessarily correct.
▪ DRS separates ‘puberty’ from ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ (↗ĭḥtalama, which is seen as a specialisation of ‘dream, to dream’, see ↗ḥulm) and rather connects it to the idea of ‘strength, healthiness’ as attached to √ḤLM in Hbr and Aram.
▪ In contrast, Badawi/AbdelHaleem2008follow Lane and some ClassAr lexicographers in interpreting ‘sexual maturity, puberty’ as a function of ‘to have wet dreams, nightly pollutions’ (↗ĭḥtalama), from ‘dream, to dream’ (↗ḥulm).
▪ Semantically, one could even think of the idea of ‘insight, wisdom’ etc. (↗ḥilm) as being dependent on having reached ‘maturity’. Etymologically, however, this is not necessarily true.