Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>]

<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><smaller>On 23 Nov 98, at 9:41, 
Brent Lynn Emery wrote:


<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Gill 
Sans</param><bigger>> In Genesis 40:13 the idiom "lifter of the/my head" is 
used in its normal

> idiomatic sense of "to restore/to encourage" while in verse 19 of the same

> chapter the same idiom is used literally ie your head is going to be

> lifted--- </color><smaller> right of your shoulders. 


<bigger>What makes the difference, of course, is that in the second case the 
expression 
is followed by M")aLeYKf - indicating that the meaning there is literal.  


Lewis Reich

LBR AT sprynet.com


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