Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>]

If I were to say something like "And the daughters of
Isreal shall be blessed from generation to generation",
what would you understand?

-----Original Message-----
From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: "JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 17:15:33 -0500
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] daughters jacob never spoke of

Where and to whom, does the term daughters have a wider range of
meaning than female children of one or two parents?

Shoshanna


>I think it is clear that there were more forces at work
>in the case of Jacob's children than just genetic
>statistics.
>And as already observed the term daughters has a wider
>range of meaning than the english version.
>