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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "little finger" in 1 Kings 12: 10
  • Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:07:39 -0500

LOL Yigal!

If true, it isn‘t the only place where translators got red faces, then worked
to ”clean up“ the text.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>

> Without trying to sound risqué, does anyone really think that "Qa+onni" in
> "my little ... is thicker than my father loins" really refer's to
> Rehoboam's little finger? Does anyone know of a single translation that
> leaves out the "finger"?
>
> Yigal
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