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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Jonah time travel
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:09:34 -0700

Fred:

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:55 AM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:

> ויהי יונה במעי הדג שלשה ימים ושלשה לילות
>
> jonah 1:17 excerpt
>
>
> הארצ ברחיה בעדי לעולם
>
> jonah 2:6 excerpt
>
>
> The popular and modern english translation of this three day period of
> time,
> and more specifically, the transliterated hebrew word "olam," includes
> words such as "everlasting," "eternal," "for ever," etc.
>
> But have the english translators failed to capture the intended and actual
> meaning of this 7th century b.c., hebrew word as a concealed or hidden
> period or length of time?
>

Yes.

Or more accurately “unknown period of time” as Jonah at the time he made his
prayer, did not know when it would end.

Translators as a group seem to be very conservative, not varying from KJV or
as little as possible.

>
>
> Regards,
>
> fred burlingame
>

Karl W. Randolph.




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