Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

I guess heffalumps don't get angry then, eh?  :-)
Seriously, do you have any references for this?  It makes sense, but 
I'd like to do a little more reading on the subject of idioms and such.

> 
> 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 ----- 
>     From: Shoshanna Walker 
> To: Biblical Hebrew 
> 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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