Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Translation
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 01:16:06 -0500
Peter Kirk
I concur. In fact I am writing a paper on Yhvh's anger and the
metaphoric use of xrh, xrwn, hmh and )p and I have come up with similar
translations.
It's too late---or too early in the morning---for a detailed discourse,
but a phrase like xmh w)p, which is frequently translated as a hendiady,
rage and fury (NRSV or NJPS), seems to indicate that the anger is
connected to the nose---"breather" as Peter Kirk suggested---or that it
is breath that exits through the nose. Ps 78.38: In the rage of his
nose/breather---bhrwn )pw.
The anger that comes out is frequently poured, $pk or ntk, suggesting a
liquid rather than vapor.