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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:2 - And the earth was without form, and void
  • Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:08:45 -0500

Peter:

This is exactly what I was telling Doug, that when
"day" is used apart from a number as in your
example below, in both English and Biblical Hebrew
(I suspect English got that usage from Bible
translations), an understanding of other than an
equivalent of a 24 hour day is often what is meant.
The context tells us how long. But with a number, a
24 hour day.

Karl W. Randolph.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kirk" <peter AT qaya.org>
>
> On 14/04/2006 14:56, Karl Randolph wrote:
> > Doug:
> >
> > There is nothing in the text itself that indicates that "day"
> > when used with a number means anything else than the equivalent
> > of a modern 24 hour day or the lighted portion thereof. The use
> > of "day" in a non-numerical context can have other meanings, just
> > as in English, but not in a numerical context. (If I say, "I plan
> > to travel there in five days" I don't mean five years from now,
> > or five ages, but within a week. The same in Biblical Hebrew.)
> >
> >
> Yes, but if I write "In Shakespeare's day theatres were tightly
> regulated", there is "nothing in the text itself that indicates
> that "day" ... means anything else than the equivalent of a modern
> 24 hour day or the lighted portion thereof", nevertheless it is
> clear to all that I mean a period longer than 24 hours. And so in
> Hebrew in many occurrences of YOM which cannot refer to literal 24
> hour days.
>
>
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/

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