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Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus 3:14

From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
To: Lew Osborne <osbo AT hn.ozemail.com.au>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus 3:14
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:20:46 -0500

At 08:49 AM 2/23/03 +1000, you wrote:
>Greetings
>
>In Exodus 3:14 we have the well known phrase hyha dva hyha (ehyeh asher
>ehyeh) which has been loosly translated as 'Iam that I am". The Oxford
>Study Edition The New English Bible, in a footnote brings this translation
>in line with the margin notes of Moffatt, Companion Bible, English Revised
>Bible NIV and most others when it gives a more correct translation as "I
>will be what I will be".
>
>The question is, is there any authority in the Hebrew to place this phrase
>in capital letters as it is done in the KJV

no

jim

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[b-hebrew] Exodus 3:14, Lew Osborne, 02/22/2003
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        Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus 3:14, Charles David Isbell, 02/25/2003
        
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