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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Idioms
  • Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 22:26:45 -0500


<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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  • Idioms, Brent Lynn Emery, 11/23/1998
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Idioms, Lewis Reich, 11/23/1998
    • Re[2]: Idioms, Peter_Kirk, 11/24/1998

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