Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Dear Harold:

I had never heard of this translation before, so I spent some time poking
around their translation and site, and to say that I am underwhelmed is an
understatement.

As I stated before to Isaac, "The bottom line, you can't take just one verse
from a highly poetic
use, where you are not even sure of the root being used, to argue
against the clear meaning of a verb in its other
uses." I would extend that even to allowing for a one time use of a
unique meaning to fit a one time occurance.
Like all other translations I have seen, I do not see this one as a source
of scholarly information on the Hebrew Bible, its social climate nor
language.

Karl W. Randolph.


On 6/19/07, Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net> wrote:
> Dear Isaac,
>
> Did you see the NET note, which agrees with the meaning you give the
> verb? The NET says:
>
> The verb יִתְעַלֶּם (yit'allem) has been translated "is hid" or "hides
> itself." But this does not work easily in the sentence with the
> preposition "upon them." Torczyner suggested "pile up" from an Aramaic
> root עֲלַם ('alam), and E. Dhorme (Job, 87) defends it without changing
> the text, contending that the form we have was chosen for alliterative
> value with the prepositional phrase before it.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard