Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

This expression may be modeled upon Russian. But, then, Russian has too many
similarities with Hebrew for a coincidence. Recently, we discussed deictic
center shifts: common in Hebrew and Russian, yet so odd for English and
German scholars that they preferred discarding Hebrew tenses in favor of the
bizarre "aspect-only" theory.

Vadim Cherny



> I haven't come across where it has that sense in modern Hebrew, I
> lived in Israel for 12 years and I am fluent.
>
> If I have been missing something, can you give me an example
>
> Shoshanna
>
>
>
> > Both in Ex3 and in Ex33 'verb asher verb' has the
> > sense of refusal: refusal
> > to tell the name and to show the face.
> > ehye asher ehye is not the name, but a refusal to
> > tell it. Similarly in Ex33
>
> It has that sense in modern Hebrew (slang?) - it's a
> curt, impolite, impatient retort; but in Biblical
> Hebrew?!
>
> Noam
> _______________________________________________
> b-hebrew mailing list
> b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
>
>