Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andronic Khandjani <andronicusmy AT gmail.com>]

There is some tendency use plural in the semitic and quite semitic world. In
the Quran, Allah is using the "we", in Iran we use both forms Izad and
Yezdan for the same God. Yezdan is basically a plural like Elohim.

2011/10/28 Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>

> eloha singular - elohim plural.
> why can elohim be a very early semitic conception of god as a
> multifaceted entity or even a bundling of canaanite deities? referring
> to them in plural seems to me a clue to such an origin.  otherwise it
> would have been be 'tzalmo' and 'kamoni', no?
>
> Uzi Silber
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Andronic Khandjani
> <andronicusmy AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > Uzi,
> > Thanks.
> > How you will render Elohim? Why the governing verb is singular?
> >
> > I think that we must consider Elohim as singular even HE speaks to
> Angels. I
> > would maintain the monotheism of the author.
> > Firouz Khandjani
> > 2011/10/28 Uzi Silber <uzisilber AT gmail.com>
> >>
> >> Andronic
> >>
> >> Elohim is a plural, so 'echad me eemanu', would make sense. much like
> >> the earlier passgae that says that man would be made 'be tzalmeynu'
> >>
> >> Uzi Silber
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Andronic Khandjani
> >> <andronicusmy AT gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > We usually renders Genesis 3:22 by "" Behold, the man is become as one
> >> > of
> >> > us, to know good and evil", a targum translates mimenou by "by
> himself"
> >> > and
> >> > the mim and the lam may suggest some motion. Mim may suggest
> subtraction
> >> > and
> >> > lam adhesion.  Eva is not even mentioned but only Adam.
> >> >
> >> > Is it possible that k'ehad refer to the unity of Genesis 2.24, if so
> >> > Adam
> >> > refers here to the humanity and we may render the verse like this:
> >> > "The human became as one by their own initiative through the knowledge
> >> > of
> >> > good and evil"?
> >> > .
> >> > Firouz Khandjani
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Pleven, Bulgaria
> >> > _______________________________________________
> >> > b-hebrew mailing list
> >> > b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
> >> >
> >
> >
>