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All I have handy here is my BDB CD-ROM,
which lists all occurrences of the words I've indicated. The entry for
harah translates "burn, be kindled, of anger", and compares with cognates:
Aramaic Pa'el, cause fire to burn; Arabic (which I unfortunately can't read),
"burning sensation, in throqt, etc..haron is translated as (burning of) anger;
it can occur alone or in combination with 'af. My guess is that haron as anger
is a short form of haron 'af. hori, "burning", always occurs with
'af..
BDB gives as the opposite of 'erekh 'apayim -
qetsar ruah,m "short of wind/breath" or 'i$ hemah.
As for the secondary literature, you'll have to do
a library search! I suggest you start with HAL (the latest English version of
Koehler-Baumgartner).
Hope this helps,
Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:50
PM
Subject: Long-nosed
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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