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Re: Biblical Hebrew

From:Dan Sulani <dnsulani@...>
Date:Saturday, August 17, 2002, 19:19
On 15 August, John Cowan wrote:

> The concepts "womb", "bowels", and "compassion" seem to > be clearly connected. > There are several biblical references to offspring being born from one's > bowels (Gen. 15:4 and 25:23, e.g.), and to the bowels as the organ of > compassion:
True.
> > Genesis 43:30 And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did > yearn upon his > brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his > chamber, and wept there. >
In the Hebrew original of this verse, the word is |raxamav| from the root r-x-m, which is connected with "womb" and "compassion". "Bowels", OTOH, is |me'ayim| (' = ayin) and is not found in this verse. A better example would be Jeremiah chap. 31, verse 20 at the end of the verse. |me'ay|, meaning "bowels" and |raxem|, meaning compassion, are found next to each other. Roughly translated as: " ... my bowels yearn for him, I will surely have compassion upon him..." Dan Sulani ----------------------------------------------- likehsna rtem zuv tikuhnuh auag inuvuz vaka'a A word is an awesome thing.

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