Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>]

On 18 Jun 00, at 16:57, Ian Hutchesson wrote:

> However another translation of b++ relates the word to the Hebrew b$$
> from bw$, to be ashamed (as in Ishbosheth) and the text becomes:
> 
>   The day of the full moon of Hiyaru was shamed:
>   the sun went in with her gate-keeper Rashap.

It occurs to me that there is yet another Hebrew word b$$, which we find 
in Exodus 32:1, as well as Judges 5:28, with the apparent meaning of to 
delay, tarry, be late.  Is a possible reading hear that "the day of the full 
moon of Hiyaru was delayed"?

Lewis Reich