Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>]

Numbers 23:19 says "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of
man, that He should repent..."

My questions is about the verb "repent". The more common verb for
"repent" is SHIN-VAV-BETH, as in "Teshuvah" and other forms. But here the
author has chosen to use "nacham" NUN-CHET-MEM, a less common, although
still quite common, verb for repent. What is the difference between the
two?

- Andy Smith

"... if Bach is the sound of God thinking, then perhaps Gershwin is, at
least, the sound of St. Anthony of Padua whistling as he works ..." -
Michael Bywater






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