Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

Dear Isaac,
> I looked it up and Indeed Job 16:6 is translated as "They   are dark   
> because of ice; snow is piled up over them".   Now that yit’allem is 
> behind us we can start thinking what   HA-QODRIYM MINI QARAX means. I 
> don't think it is "They   are dark   because of ice". I fail to see 
> how HA-QODRIYM can mean "They   are dark" and how something can be 
> dark because of ice. I think that reference here is not to water but 
> to the snow capped mountains of East Africa being the source of melt 
> ice water springs.

The context is not East Africa but areas east of Israel where Job lived. 
The context is the disappearing rivers that flow for part of the year 
and dry up in other parts, as in Israel (wadis). The verse continues the 
reasoning of the previous verse. Ice could darken the water as solid 
masses that cast shadows and block light.
> While at it, I also looked up Genesis 2:17 which they translate "but 
> you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for 
> when   you eat from it you will surely die". I wish they would leave 
> out this superfluous and outright annoying word "surely".

We've dealt with this topic already.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard