Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>]

So the translator of Nieszche's "The Gay Science" was speaking of
homosexuality?  If we are to take today's meanings as being normative for
previous writings, this must be the case.

gfsomsel
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On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 20:45:35 +0300 "VC" <vadim_lv AT center-tv.net> writes:
> I'm referring to the dictionaries of living Hebrew, like Shapiro or
> Steinberg, not a Tanakhic dictionary with speculative 
> interpretations
> instead of the established meanings.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Vadim Cherny
> 
> > >>>The translation of "coastland" is perfectly reasonable. 
> However, can we
> > >>>disregard the established meaning of the word and attach it the 
> sense,
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >which
> > >
> > >
> > >>>we think suits it better? This approach can lead as far away.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>HH: "Coastland" is a well-established meaning for the word.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Not in the conventional Hebrew dictionaries
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > I'm not sure what dictionaries you consider "conventional", but 
> one of
> > the best respected in English for nearly 100 years has been
> > Brown-Driver-Briggs, and its gloss is "coast, region". If that's 
> too
> > modern for you, try Strong: "dry land, a coast, an island"; or 
> Davidson:
> > "habitable earth or land, coast, sea-coast, island".
> >
> > --
> > Peter Kirk
> > peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> > peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> > http://www.qaya.org/
> >
> >
> 
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