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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <LBR AT sprynet.com>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Numbers 23:19 verb and meaning?
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:23:42 -0500


On 12 Mar 99, at 5:52, Andrew C Smith wrote:

> 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?

My impression (and I have nothing immediately at hand to back it up,
so I'm just tossing it out as a suggestion) is that the sense of $WB
is repenting or atoning for a sin, while NXM has a sense of regret
for a mistaken decision.

Lewis Reich
LBR AT sprynet.com




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