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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: 'erek 'apayim (was RE: The OT?)
  • Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 23:23:39 -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.
>
>
>
> If it's in the Torah, the origin is G-d
>
IOW G-d goes through linguistic changes just like Hebrew idioms
did.....

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Don't let your mind wander.
It's too little to be left alone."





  • 'erek 'apayim (was RE: The OT?), Dave Washburn, 08/25/2002

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