Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Doug, any translation is necessarily an interpretation, as is any reading.
Both Gen. 10:25 and 11:1 have "ha'arec", which literally means "the earth"
or "the land". As you write, 11:1 is specifically about the people of the
earth having one tongue. 10:25 simply explains Peleg's name by saying "in
his day the earth was divided". The logical inference is to 11:1-9, but if
you want to think that it refers to some other division of the earth, there
is no way I can prove that it does not. 

Yigal Levin

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Belot [mailto:dbelot AT bigpond.net.au] 
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 12:41 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen 10:25 dividing the earth

Yigal thank you very much for your reply , are you saying that you dont see 
the hebrew Text , which is translated into most Bibles as saying , "in his 
days the earth was divided" , as meaning what is written , are people 
actually suggested by text as bing here.

In Gen 11:1 , most bibles have "all the world" , "people of the earth" , etc

, it doe not seem to be as explicit , this is why I needed a Hebrew scholars

instruction as to hwat the verses actuall in hebrew do say .

Are both Gen 11:1 and Gen 10:25 each suggesting the same context of the 
earth , there seems no suggestion that people are involved at all in Gen 
10:25 but it seems that in Gen 11:1 it is about the people.

is it possible to verbatim translate both verse with direct English words 
from their Hebrew counterpart and thus remove doubt as to what was writen , 
rather than what the interpreter "thinks it should mean".

doug belot


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:34 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Gen 10:25 dividing the earth


> Dear Doug,
>
> The way I (and I think most people) read the explanation of the name 
> "Peleg"
> is as a reference to the Tower of Babel story in Gen. 11:1-9. And just as 
> in
> verse 1 there, "all the earth" refers to the human inhabitants of the 
> earth,
> not the planet itself, I assume that this is what 10:25 means as well. 
> Does
> it also refer to the earth being divided in other ways, such as into
> continents and habitation zones? I don't see it in the text, but who 
> knows?
>
>
> Yigal Levin
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Doug Belot
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:53 AM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Gen 10:25 dividing the earth
>
> Perhaps i should begin by an apology for dashing in where angels fear to
> tread , I love your emails back and forth about all sorts of areas of
> Heberew , sometimes that have quite a bit of value for me , I am sure they
> are valuable to you all
>
> Now my query is hebrew language related in that I want to know , if 
> possible
>
> , does Gen 10:25 when speaking of dividing the earth actually mean what it
> says , and thus explaining the different languages world wide , and the
> differernt animals , Kangaroo , in Aus ' Zebra in Africa , etc.
>
> Did the existing "earth" as a round ball divide into different areas , can
> we safely believe that this is what is written and thus this is what it is
> meant to be from what is written here in Gen 10:25 , or will your ability 
> to
>
> rip it into segments of constanants make this implausible.
>
> doug belot
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Noam Eitan" <noameitan AT yahoo.com>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 7:12 AM
> Subject: [b-hebrew] better concordance than Even-Shoshan?
>
>
>> Dear list members,
>>
>> I had many situations over the years where I couldn't find a word in
>> Abraham Even-Shoshan concordance. The latest was when I tried to locate
>> "me'ashpatot yarim evyon" (can't remember where it is in the HB [has to 
>> be
>
>> a Psalm] or translate it) - ashpatot is not mentioned at all, only ashpa,
>> and I could not find the verb yarim in any form, in any binyan. Is there 
>> a
>
>> better, really complete Hebrew concordance of the HB?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Noam Eitan, Brooklyn, NY
>>
>>
>>
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