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  • From: "Mark Markham" <markhamm AT topsurf.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: 40 days/nights
  • Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 00:15:13 +0200


What is the understanding of the number 40 as an idiom meaning a long time
in Biblical Hebrew. Is this understanding legit?

Should 40 days/nights be taken as lit. or as an idiom or both?

Thanks for you help.

Mark Markham
Heidelberg, Germany





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