Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Karl:

Thanks for your comments.

Please forgive my inability to understand you.

Perhaps the following examples will illuminate the issue confronting me.

When I see the following two biblical hebrew words; I understand the
prevailing and generally accepted english meanings of these words as
follows:

a. דג = fish;

b. עץ = tree.

And

c. עולם = ?

Or to say it another way; if "dag" means fish; and "etz" means tree; what
does "olam" mean?

It all seems so simple.

There must be some straightforward meaning attached to the hebrew word עולם
; just as a simple meaning attaches to דג and עץ . ?

What is the meaning of olam in biblical hebrew?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:04 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred:
>
>  On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:42 PM, fred burlingame 
> <tensorpath AT gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello Karl:
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.
>>
>> Can you point to a specific example in the masoretic text of עולם meaning
>> infinite action, eternal action ... versus finite and/or temporal action?
>>
>
> Again you focus on the form, not the action. The question is not whether or
> not it is infinite or finite, but whether or not it deals with that which is
> unknown. In this case, both the finite and the infinite are unknown at the
> referent time.
>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> fred burlingame
>>
>> Karl W. Randolph.
>