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40 days/nights

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

40 days/nights, Mark Markham, 09/24/1999
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: 40 days/nights, Jim West, 09/24/1999
- Re: 40 days/nights, Barry Davis, 09/25/1999
- Re[2]: 40 days/nights, peter_kirk, 09/26/1999
- Re: Re[2]: 40 days/nights, Mark Markham, 09/26/1999
- Re: 40 days/nights, George Athas, 09/26/1999
- Re: Re[2]: 40 days/nights, Bryan Rocine, 09/26/1999
- Re[4]: 40 days/nights, peter_kirk, 09/27/1999
- Re: Re[2]: 40 days/nights, Ian Hutchesson, 09/27/1999
- Re: 40 days/nights, John Ronning, 09/27/1999
- Re: 40 days/nights, Ian Hutchesson, 09/27/1999