Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ishnian" <ishinan AT comcast.net>]

K RANDOLPH wrote : So what I am saying is that we cannot rule out that
"sphere" was meant in

Isaiah 40:22 and Proverbs 8:27. In fact, the Isaiah verse reads better as a
sphere.

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ISHINAN:  Then, how would you explain the phrase: The " FOUR CORNERS" of the 
earth  in (Isaiah 11:12)?  The very same idea is expressed in Greek in the 
Revelation to Saint John Chapter 7

"1kai meta tauta eidon tessaraV aggelouV estwtaV epi taV tessaraV GWNIA V 
thV ghV kratountaV touV tessaraVanemouV thV ghV ina mh pneh anemoV epi thV 
ghV mhte epithV qalasshV mhte epi pan dendron"  ( I saw four angels standing 
on the FOUR CORNERS of the earth, etc.)  In Greek 'GWNIA' literally means 
angles!  The Greek GWNIA is the source of  the Latin  'CUNEUS' and the 
French 'COIN' (Literally: a corner)


We all know that a 'SPHERE' does not have angles! (especially four of them 
as expressed in the Scriptures)

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Instead  the idea of an unambiguous term for SPHERE could only by expressed 
in Hebrew by using the term 'duwr' (see Strong  # 1754 ): a  ball/sphere; 
see Isa 22:18 below:

"He will surely violently turn and toss thee [like] a BALL  into a large 
country: there shalt thou die and there the chariots of thy glory [shall be] 
the shame of thy lord's house".


Ishinan Ishibashi