Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Uri and Liz:

Those words are in the context of taking off their clothes, rather they just 
rinsed themselves off dressed instead of stripping and taking a dip in a tub. 
That's how I read it.

Basically, Nehemiah was fairly competant in Hebrew language, but as a post 
Exile Jew from Susa, Hebrew was not his native tongue. As a result, this was 
his way to try to say that he, his brothers and so forth simply took quick 
showers with their clothes on.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: lizfried AT umich.edu

> 
> Hi Uri,
> I dicuss this in my book. I translate it that
> they didn't even take the time to go to the bathroom
> (to send out his water)!
> Best,
> Liz
> 
> Quoting Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>:
> 
> >
> >   Any suggestion for the meaning of the last three words in Neh. 4:17,  
> > ish
> > shilh(.)o hamayim?
> >
> >  Each word is perfectly clear but not when combined in a phrase. I seem to
> > remember that it was omitted in one of the LXX versions; I interpret this 
> > to
> > mean that the ancient translator felt, like me now, that the phrase was 
> > too
> > garbled to have a meaning..
> >
> >   Uri

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