Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Pere Porta Roca" <pporta AT tinet.fut.es>]

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From: "Deborah Millier" <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 2:54 PM
Subject: neither strength nor fanaticism


Heartly greetings to all of you from Catalonia (Spain)!

The litteral and original general sense of M'OD is 'much'.
So M'ODEKHA is, to my sense, 'your "muchness". This means, I think, 'your
(full) capacity", 'as much as you are able (or 'can')". Negatively it would
be: "without any limits"

P. Porta




> Greetings to all.  This is my first post on this list.
>  My family and I recently returned stateside from 4 ½
> years studying in Israel.  In fact, Randy Buth was one
> of my profs there (SHALOM LEKHA, ADON), . but if I say
> anything terribly ignorant, the fault lies with me
> alone.  That said, I was recently thinking about
> M'ODEKHA in Deu. 6:5, and how unsatisfactory a
> translation "your strength" seems to be there.  Now I
> realize that the English and other versions take their
> cues from the LXX's DUNAMEOS, but it still doesn't
> appear to have enough "oomph" for the way M'OD is used
> elsewhere in the Tanakh, usually with a sense of
> "extremely" or "exceedingly."  So the thought hit me--
> and I'll put it out there for you all to chew on and
> then, if need be you can chew me too-how would a
> translation like "all your *zeal*" or even "all your
> *extremism* [or *fanaticism*]" fit with the immediate
> context and the Bible's use of M'OD elsewhere?
> -- Michael Millier
>
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