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- From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
- To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
- Subject: RE: The OT?
- Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 22:50:29 -0600
>
> Now, could we please get on to something productive? For
> example, I'm looking at the phrase 'erek 'apayim in Psalm 86:15,
> and I can't help but wonder how "long of nose" came to mean "slow
> to anger." Thoughts?
>
>
> How about - erech is from the word aroch (long), it takes a long time
> to get angry in an entity that is "slow to anger"
>
> (re apayim, it is related to the word "af", nose, the nostrils of
> which tend to flare up when you get angry - of course G-d doesn't
> have nostrils, this is just to put it in human terms for us)
>
That still doesn't explain the origins of the idiom itself.
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Don't let your mind wander.
It's too little to be left alone."
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Re: The OT?
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- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, soren, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/24/2002
- RE: The OT?, Bill Ross, 08/24/2002
- Re: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Dave Washburn, 08/25/2002
- RE: The OT?, Shoshanna Walker, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
- The OT?, JwReform, 08/25/2002
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RE: The OT?,
Bill Ross, 08/25/2002
- Re: The OT?, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/25/2002
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- Re: The OT? - evidence for canon of Hebrew Scriptures by DSS and Josephus, Schmuel, 08/25/2002
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- Re: The OT?, Yigal Levin, 08/26/2002
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- Re: The OT? - evidence for canon of Hebrew Scriptures by DSS and Josephus, Jonathan D. Safren, 08/26/2002
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