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Re: USAGE: Cool Idioms (was Bibliography)

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Sunday, March 28, 1999, 1:29
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:46:02 -0500 Carlos Thompson
<chlewey@...> writes:
>Reffering to something that has happened a long time ago, there is >said it >happened "en los tiempos de upa" (in the times of upa, and I got no >idea >what upa means), in Bogot=E1 where said "en los tiempos del ruido" (in >the >times of the Noise). I remember this two idioms where quite common >when I >was a kid but I have not heard them often now a days.
"en los tiempos del ruido"? Hmm....in Biblical Hebrew, the term _ra`ash_, "noise" (= ruido), was used to mean an *earthquake*, which is known nowadays as _re`idat adamah_ (= "shaking [of the] earth"). But anyways, a few times a biblical book will use a certain earthquake in order to measure time, since in that period people always counted from famous historical events (battles, earthquakes, monarch's ascension, etc.) In Trei-`Asar, Zekharya 14:5 it says: _...venastem ka'asher nastem mipnei hara`ash biymei `uziya melekh yehuda..._ = "...and you will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of `Uziya king of Yehuda..." And in the introduction to `Amos (Trei-`Asar, `Amos 1:1) it says: _divrei `amos asher haya banoqdim miteqo'a`, asher hhaza `al yisra'eil biymei `uziya melekh yehuda uviymei yarav`am ben yo'ash melekh yisra'eil shenatayim lifnei hara`ash._ = "the words of `Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Teqo'a`, that he saw in the time of `Uziya king of Yehuda and in the time of Yarav`am son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'eil, two years before the earthquake." So, maybe it's connected, maybe it isn't.....it could be some kind of Anusim ("marranos") thing, maybe? -Stephen (Steg) "minwen jayeh? mimissrayim."
>-- >Carlos Th >http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/
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