From: "Melvin Ely and Naama Zahavi-Ely" <nxzaha AT wm.edu>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: an adversary (2 Samuel 24:1)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:33:10 -0500
Shalom! Having somebody's anger burn is standard Biblical Hebrew for that
somebody being angry: this applies to people as well as God. Anger is thus
something that happens to one, not something one does.
You get either "chara apo b..." or "chara l..." -- in either case, the angry
person is not the subject of the verb. To find examples, just search on the
root chet-resh-heh. I never felt an implication of the anger being
personalized, and again, this language is used of anybody -- individual
people as well as God.
Best wishes
Naama
an adversary (2 Samuel 24:1),
Melvin Ely and Naama Zahavi-Ely, 11/01/2002