Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Actually, the various Medieval Jewish commentators also came up with the
same suggestions: "in anger", "double", "his own", "the best", etc. I think
that the idea of the double portion best fits both the wording and the
context.

Yigal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben and Jo Crick" <ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] aph


> On Sat 21 Feb 2004 (10:42:23), roodee AT thummy.com wrote:
> > In 1 Samuel 1:5 the word aph is giving me a bit of grief. The typical
> > meaning from NIDOTT is anger or nostrils. In Samuel it refers to some
> > some of portion Samuel gives to Hannah. Can anyone shed some light on
> > this word? Is it some idiomatic expression that I don't have the tools
> > to decipher? Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>  Dear Rudy,
>
>  This has been a conundrum from antiquity. The Targum offers B:XiYR,
"choice",
>  but this has no cognate relationship to 'aPPiYM. The KJV offers "a worthy
>  portion".
>
>  The LXX makes a tacit emendation, reading apparently 'ePeS KiY (PLHN
hOTI),
>  with a Samech for a terminal Mem. Compare Numbers 13:28, 'ePeS KiY-`aZ
Ha`aM,
>  a similar construction. This ignores the pause with athnach of course.
>  "Nevertheless he loved Hannah; but YHWH had shut up her womb".
>
>  Jerome in the Vulgate translates 'aPPiYM with /tristis/: /Annae autem
dedit
>  partem unam tristis quia Annam diligebat. Dominus autem concluserat
vulvam
>  eius./  Sad, because he loved her and the LORD had shut her womb?  Angry
even?
>  Compare Daniel 11:20 Lo' B:'aPPiYM not in anger. But Elqanah's anger was
>  against the LORD in that case, not against his beloved Hannah.
>
>  Gesenius offers "one portion of two people"; but while the synechdoche of
>  a part for the whole can allow 'aP (nostril) to stand for PaNiYM (face),
>  it is stretching it to make even two nostrils mean the owners of one
nostril
>  each. Snorting down one's nostrils implies rage or anger; hence the
normal
>  use of 'aP meaning anger. NIV and NRSV seems to follow this line; "a
double
>  portion".
>
>  So relax, Rudy: you are in good company!
>
>  Shalom
>  Ben
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