Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 14/11/2005 16:24, Awohili AT aol.com wrote:

> ...
>
> "I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was  
> about me for ever [l'olam]:  yet hast thou brought up my life from  corruption, 
> O LORD my God." -- Jonah 2:6 KJV
>
> In this occurrence, "forever" lasted for only three days.
>
>  
Thank you for putting forward an example of non-eternal `olam. But 
surely the point here was that Jonah thought that this was indeed 
forever, i.e. that he was dead, that he was in Sheol itself (v.2), the 
eschatological pit (shaxat, v.6, mistranslated "corruption" in KJV) - 
until his miraculous deliverance.

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