Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Saturday 23 August 2003 13:59, Liz Fried wrote:
> > L. Fried wrote:
> > > Dear Michael,
> > > The nephesh is
> > > in the blood.
> >
> > True enough, but consider 1 Kgs. 17:21-22 with a
> > wooden rendition of your contribution in mind:
> >
> > TASHAV NA NEFESH-HA-YELED HA-ZEH AL-QIRBO....
> > VA-TASHAV NEFESH-HA-YELED AL-QIRBO VA-YEKHI.
>
> I think the life force is in the blood, like electricity.
> When it flows the person/object is alive, otherwise he's/it's  dead.

That seems just a tad 20th-century for the HB.  And doesn't the passage 
actually say the life *of the body* is in the blood?

-- 
Dave Washburn
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"God does a lot of things in the Psalms
that He can't get away with in systematic theology."