Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Fri 12 Mar 99 (05:52:03), a.c.smith AT juno.com wrote:
> 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?

 Dear Andy

 You'll find a discussion of this at some length in that old standby,
 Robert Baker Girdlestone, /Old Testament Synonyms/, reprint Eerdmans,
 pp 87-93.

 $aLoWM
 Ben
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