Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <Yigal.Levin AT biu.ac.il>]

Ishinan,

You quoted me out of context. I was referring to your translation of Gen. 
1:20, in which "raqia'" was translated "open firmament". Of course there are 
Hebrew words that mean "open", the basic one being "patuax". 

What you did not do was to answer the question - what makes that particular 
(in my opinion - not so good) translation "official" as you called it.

Yigal Levin

-----Original Message-----
From: Ishnian [mailto:ishinan AT comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 9:43 AM
To: Yigal Levin
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] A VISUAL EXPRESSION OF A THEOLOGICAL IDEA OFTHE 
SKY/HEAVEN



ISHINAN: ....... a great variety of applications one of them is being 'empty' 
or 'open' which would make more sense .

 YGAL : there is no word in the Hebrew that corresponds to "open".


 ISHINAN: What about req, riq, reqam, etc., occurs in the literal sense of 
"void " in (Genesis 31:42; Job 22:9)?

      מב  לוּלֵי אֱלֹהֵי אָבִי אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם וּפַחַד יִצְחָק, הָיָה 
לִי--כִּי עַתָּה, רֵיקָם שִׁלַּחְתָּנִי; אֶת-עָנְיִי וְאֶת-יְגִיעַ כַּפַּי, 
רָאָה אֱלֹהִים--וַיּוֹכַח אָמֶשׁ. 42 Except the God of my father, the God of 
Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been on my side, surely now hadst thou 
sent me away EMPTY. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, 
and gave judgment yesternight.'





Ishinan Ishibashi