> Both in Ex3 and in Ex33 'verb asher verb' has the
> sense of refusal: refusal
> to tell the name and to show the face.
> ehye asher ehye is not the name, but a refusal to
> tell it. Similarly in Ex33
It has that sense in modern Hebrew (slang?) - it's a
curt, impolite, impatient retort; but in Biblical
Hebrew?!