Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

Pere,
Though I have not studied Job much in Hebrew, I think it is the most
difficult book to translate.
The reason I think this is because, when I do word studies, I find that Job
most often uses words to have very different meanings than the same word in
other books. I do not have this problem with any other book nearly as much
as Job. Never Ezekiel, but sometimes Lamentations. 

Also, though, I don't have data, I seem to encounter more hapaxes in Job
than any other book.

As an example, Job 40:15ff:
V15 - behemoth
V16 navel
V17 פַחֲדָו   יַחְפֹּץ  
V18 bars


Sincerely,
-Steve Miller
Detroit
www.voiceInWilderness.info
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> >
> >  On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I wish to know what is the most difficult passage of the Hebrew
> > > Bible to translate to English.
> > > Maybe are there more than one (namely two, three...), which are
> > > equally difficult?
> > >
> > > Pere Porta
> > > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
> > >