[b-hebrew] Exodus 33:11-23

Noam Eitan noameitan at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 8 15:23:29 EDT 2005


> Both in Ex3 and in Ex33 'verb asher verb' has the
> sense of refusal: refusal
> to tell the name and to show the face.
> ehye asher ehye is not the name, but a refusal to
> tell it. Similarly in Ex33

It has that sense in modern Hebrew (slang?) - it's a
curt, impolite, impatient retort; but in Biblical
Hebrew?!

Noam



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