Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 12:00 AM 6/15/00 -0500, you wrote:

><Bill>
>So would that literally be "you make my head fat"?
>
>Bill Ross


:-)

Now thats funny!  Maybe thats where the phrase "fat head" came from.
Seriously though, sometimes literal translation of foreign phrases can cause
a whole lot of misunderstanding.  Dynamic equivalents are always better than
wooden literalism.

Jim

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