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  • From: Irene Riegner <iriegner AT concentric.net>
  • To: Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>
  • Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Hebrew plural nouns
  • Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:02:50 -0500

Andrew Smith wrote
 
The word for noon in
Hebrew, tzohorayim, is plural.
 
Looks to me like dual.

"Afternoon" means more than "noon" ;  it's an expanse of time.  And the dual would fit in with the rabbinic explanation:  As the sun moves in the afternoon, one sees shadows first on the west and then on the east---two positions for shadows (plus the incremental positions in-between).

regards,

irene riegner

"form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form;  emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ
from emptiness;  whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form, the same is true of
feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness.
----from the Heart Sutra----



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