Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 25/01/2007 21:24, Tory Thorpe wrote:
> Karl:
>
> When we read from the TaNaK we are not translating
> into English.
> The art does not apply when the brain is already wired
> for
> Hebrew; but "words", "utterances," "statements" are
> permissible 
> translations of DBR. There are not ten commandments,
> so the 
> variant numbering has nothing to do with a so-called
> rabbinic 
> misunderstanding of the Hebrew word.
>
>   
It is worth pointing out that DAVAR does not seem to mean "word" in the 
sense of an individual lexical or phonological item. Nor does 'IMRA. 
This is important because I have seen people using verses like Proverbs 
30:5,6 as an argument for word for word translation. But these verses 
are not about words in that sense, but about messages or utterances.


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