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  • From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yonsaf AT beitberl.ac.il>
  • To: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>, "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: The OT?
  • Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:43:58 +0200

Hori 'af - "burning of the nose" - is an idiom for anger.
Hemah, another word for anger, comes from the root hmm, "be hot".
If one has a long nose, the heated air cools down and does not cause anger so quickly.
Jonathan
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 6:59 AM
Subject: RE: The OT?

>
> 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

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