Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible, Karl, that you provide us with two sentences (in English)
> where, at comparing them, this difference in meaning, this different nuance
> between the two "understanding" is clearly seen and verified?
>
> Pere Porta
>
>
> Other than a few, isolated passages read with other people, I read the
whole Tanakh in English only once, decades ago, and that in archaic English
that I did not understand fully. Almost everything that I know of Tanakh I
learned from reading it in Hebrew. I don’t know of any English examples
that can show what I noticed in Hebrew.

I referenced Hebrew examples, because those are the ones that I know.

When looking at the contexts for בינה I saw no special nuance indicating
anything other than insight, understanding.

When looking at the contexts for תבונה several of them are in connection
with actions, particularly construction. Hence my conclusion.

Karl W. Randolph.