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Thread #167430   Message #4128780
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
12-Dec-21 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: Maritime work song in general
Subject: RE: Maritime work song in general
Westernized more than a bit. I have no luck posting Greek or Hebrew online. See links below for the mother alphabets.

Keleusma, Hortatio, I T.heff. 4.16. Celeusma, ut Latini quoque loquuntur, Stephan. In Thef. This word fignifieth fuch kinds of fhouts or watch-words as men that row, or vintage-men, do use, to encourage or call upon one another, Deodate in locum. It fignifieth properly that encouragement which i Mariners ufe to one another, when they altogether, with one fhout, put forth their oares, and row together.”
[Critica Sacra Or Observations on All the Hebrew Radices, 1650]
Strong's Hebrew 1959   – hedad – a shout, shouting, cheer.
Strong's Greek 2752 – keleusma – a shout of command.