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Dear David,
The following is quote from TWOT, Vol. 1, page 72, by
V.P.H. (Victor P. Hamilton),
" 'arek. "Long." Appears only in the
construct for 'erek, never in the absolute. It is used fifteen times. It is used
ten times in connection with God, four times in connection with man (Prov 14:29;
15:18; 16:32; Eccl 7:8), once in connection with the wingspread of a bird (Ezk
17:3).
Applied to either God or man it is used
most frequently in construct to the word 'appayim, and is translated
"longsuffering, slow to anger/wrath.: Literally, when the Bible says God is
"longsuffering" (Ex 34:6; Numb 14:18; Ps 86:15, etc.) it reads "God is long of
nose." When he is angry, his nose becomes red and burns. It may be questioned
whether in the living language the idioms had not already dropped their
etymological associations and did not merely mean to be longsuffering and to be
angry. When he is compassionate his nose becomes long, so long in fact that it
would take forever to burn completely."
I hope this helps?
En Xpistw,
Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 9:37
AM
Subject: Re: Long-nosed
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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