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  • From: Jonathan Mohler <jonathan.mohler AT gmail.com>
  • To: Mike Burke <michaelgburk AT yahoo.com>, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>, B-Hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 125, Issue 24
  • Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:24:59 -0500

I don't see the mystery here.  מעונן M-ONEN has to do with seeing in the future.  It has an ayin and a nun. So it must be related to עין (ayin, eye.  How hard is that? (ayin words are common in other language groups.  Swahili, for example, has ona, see.

Jonathan E. Mohler
Baptist Bible Graduate School
Springfield, MO
On May 14, 2013, at 11:00 AM, b-hebrew-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

What we know is that he did some hocus focus, how "exactly" he did it we don't know. 
Maybe מעונן M-ONEN is related to ענה ANAH, 'call', and אנן ANAN, 'complain', as in 
Nu. 11:1, namely, an expert lip-worker, an utterer of secret intonations. M-NAXE$ 
is also possibly some sort of a M-LAXE$, 'whisperer, ventriloquist'. 

Isaac Fried, Boston University
 
On May 13, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Mike Burke wrote:

>>>>Some think that M-ONEN (Deut. 18:10) is a looker at clouds, but this is also doubtful. <<<<

So we really have no idea what the term means?
 
Michael Gerard Burke






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