Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

Harold,

My favorite OT translations translate kol as voice: Darby, KJB, LXX, ASV.

How would you propose to translate le ruach in Gen 3:8 as Spirit? I don't
see a way to have Spirit make sense there.

Thanks,
-Steve Miller
Detroit



> -----Original Message-----
> Harold Jenkerson Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:23 PM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3.8
> 
> Sir,
> Most translations of this verse translate the Hebrew word "voice" as
> "sound"
> and the word "spirit" as some meteorlogical term such as "cool," rather
> than
> voice and spirit.  Would it not be in keeping with the entire message of
> the
> Bible to keep to "voice" and "spirit"?
> 
> To translate as such would it go against the Hebrew grammar of the verse?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harold Jenkerson
> ----- Original Message -----