Babel East (was: Online Language Identifier)
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 10:34 |
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On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:24 PM, # 1 wrote:
> (A little question that would help for my translation of the Tower of
> Babel: In the second verse, dpending of the source, I can find "And as
> they came from the east" or "As men moved eastward"... A they moving
> from East or West?)
>
> - Max
In the Hebrew, it's _vayhi benos`am MIQEDEM_, which means 'from the
east' or 'off in the east'.
-Stephen (Steg)
"Let them come.
There is one dwarf yet in Moria who still draws breath."
~ gimli son of gloin, LotR:FotR (movie version, at least)