Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel AT exc.com>]

> Also, Modern Hebrew "express" means "no or few stops on the way",
>not "local."  If you go to http://www.egged.co.il/ and look up bus
>#394, for example, you'll see that it is listed as an "express" type
>bus even though it departs from Tel Aviv Central Bus Station to
>Eilat.

You're confused.  You're thinking of MAHIR or YASHIR.  The EXPRESS
busses make lots of stops.  (Just look at how many stops #394 makes
along the way!) 

This is exaclty the sort of confusion that results from assuming that
cognates (or borrowed words) mean the same thing in two different
languages.


-Joel M. Hoffman
 http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman