At 01:27 PM 9/14/2005, Vadim Cherny <VadimCherny AT mail.ru> wrote:
That does not makes sense in English. In other languages, Russian and Modern
Hebrew in particular, it is idiomatic refusal. And this meaning is supported
by similar constructs in Ex33:19.
For a very good reason: modern Hebrew colloquialisms are based directly on Russian, the language used by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and others of my father's generation. One example:
Russian: duraka pol rabota nye pokazivaiut
Hebrew: letipesh lo mar-im khatzi avoda.
There are hundreds of similar constructions, directly borrowed from Russian which you will never find in the Bible.
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