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  • From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: "'Harold Jenkerson'" <jenks AT gilanet.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3.8
  • Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 22:13:24 -0500

Harold,

My favorite OT translations translate kol as voice: Darby, KJB, LXX, ASV.

How would you propose to translate le ruach in Gen 3:8 as Spirit? I don't
see a way to have Spirit make sense there.

Thanks,
-Steve Miller
Detroit



> -----Original Message-----
> Harold Jenkerson Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:23 PM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3.8
>
> Sir,
> Most translations of this verse translate the Hebrew word "voice" as
> "sound"
> and the word "spirit" as some meteorlogical term such as "cool," rather
> than
> voice and spirit. Would it not be in keeping with the entire message of
> the
> Bible to keep to "voice" and "spirit"?
>
> To translate as such would it go against the Hebrew grammar of the verse?
>
> Thanks,
> Harold Jenkerson
> ----- Original Message -----






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