Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve.Thompson AT avondale.edu.au" <steve.thompson AT avondale.edu.au>]

I see two linguistic obstacles to your suggestion--first, can the meaning 
of the English word "twins" stretch to cover the case of children of two 
separate "fathers" being carried simultaneously by one mother?  Second, BH 
has a perfectly acceptable noun for twins, and a verb expressing "bear 
twins", so why would the narrator chose such a cryptic mode of expressing 
the birth of twins?

Steven Thompson, Dean
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On Thursday, 6 January 2000 18:24, YAHSHUAS AT aol.com [SMTP:YAHSHUAS AT aol.com] 
wrote:
> What you all think of Cain and Able as being twins?  Eve being beguiled 
by
> the serpent, therefore the father of the evil one ( Cain), and Able the 
son
> of Adam?  Gen. 4:2 says "she again bare his brother Able".  The word 
again as
> if to continue in child birth.
>
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