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[Andrew <uir.domini AT yahoo.co.uk>]

Hello Everybody,
 
I have a question with regards to Exodus 34:6 that might sound very strange?
 
I came across this sermon on a website that can be found below:
 
http://www.mecmalvern.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=84&Itemid=54
 
It is the sermon on the 14th of March 2010 by Lewis, bout 8:22 mins to 10:01 
mins into the talk he claims that the Hbrew words "slow to anger" originally 
means "long of nose."
 
I would be very grateful if someone could please help me with this and 
clarify if its true or not?
 
Thank you,
 
Take Care,
 
>From Andrew Pike
 
 



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Andrew:

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:20 AM, Andrew <uir.domini AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have a question with regards to Exodus 34:6 that might sound very
> strange?
>

No, it’s not strange.

>
> … he claims that the Hbrew words "slow to anger" originally means "long of
> nose."
>
>
> >From Andrew Pike
>
>
That is a  common teaching, and that is what I was taught in class as well.
However, is it true? Or are they two different words, with different
etymologies, that happened to converge in form?

Presently both “nose” and “anger” are spelled and pronounced the 
same. But
was that always true? We don’t know. The vowels were not preserved in
Biblical Hebrew. And by the time of the Masoretes, a shift in pronunciation
could have caused both words to be pronounced the same.

Personally I am of the opinion that they were originally two separate words,
that converged in form, just like the English word “too” (to, too, two).

Karl W. Randolph.