To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Infamous Ugaritic text: an eclipse
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 19:27:50 -0400
On 18 Jun 00, at 16:57, Ian Hutchesson wrote:
> However another translation of b++ relates the word to the Hebrew b$$
> from bw$, to be ashamed (as in Ishbosheth) and the text becomes:
>
> The day of the full moon of Hiyaru was shamed:
> the sun went in with her gate-keeper Rashap.
It occurs to me that there is yet another Hebrew word b$$, which we find
in Exodus 32:1, as well as Judges 5:28, with the apparent meaning of to
delay, tarry, be late. Is a possible reading hear that "the day of the full
moon of Hiyaru was delayed"?