Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

shalom Liz, 

While reading today's paper I remembered your note on "taHat".
(LF:)
>Once tho I told
>the waiter that I wanted tay Ham taHat ha Soda (that I had
>originally ordered). He brought me both the tea and the soda. I
>learned only later that taHat does not mean "instead of" in
>Modern Hebrew.

Actually, "taHat" needs contextual clues for it to be understood "not
literally" 
but in its metaphorical extensions. Modern Hebrew shares other common 
relator-words in this semantic domain, like "bimqom", "temurat", "Helef",
"biglal". 

Anyway, in today's paper:

"[hem] omrim sheheHliTu levatter `al ezraHutam ha-tsarfatit 
velidrosh ezraHut yisraelit taHteha."
they were saying that they decided to give up their French citizenship 
and to seek Israeli citizenship in its place.

shabbat shalom,

Randall Buth