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▪ Jeffery1938: »The exegetes naturally take it as the verbal noun from fassara ‘to explain’, form II of fasara ‘to discover something hidden’. Fraenkel, Fremdw, 286, however, thinks that in this technical sense fassara is a borrowing from the Syr pšr ‘to expound, make clear’, which is very commonly used in early Syr texts in the sense of ‘interpretation of Scripture’. This sense of ‘to solve, interpret’ from the Aram pīšar, Syr pᵊšar ‘to dissolve’ seems a peculiar development of meaning in Aram, and Hbr pēšär is a loan-word from Aram pišrā, so that Arab fassara is doubtless of the same origin,¹ and tafassara and tafsīr were later formed from this borrowed verb. / Halevy, JA, viiᵉ sér., vol. x, p. 412, thinks that he finds the word ʔfsr ‘interpreter’ in the Safaite inscriptions, which, if correct, would point to the pre-Islamic use of the root in this sense in NArabia.«
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1. Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 68, however, would derive the Aram forms from Akk pašāru. See also Horovitz, JPN, 218.

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