In view of your response to me, I had decided not to respond, but now as you expanded to Yitzhak, there are a few things that I think should be emphasized.
From your latest responses, I wonder if you reallyknow English that well. (e.g. I have several times read the phrase "he is like a dog with a bone" which is an idiomatic phrase that has nothing about likening a person to a dog, rather it is a comment on his tenacity. That you didn't recognize it reflects on your knowledge of English.)
I will come back to Genesis 8:22.
When you quoted many translations, my eyes glazed over and I skipped that section. Translations don't count. I have read Tanakh only once in translation, but several times in Hebrew. If you want to convince me, show me from Hebrew usage.
Similarly, your references to modern science and bird migration patterns are irrelevant.
As I claim, words have a circle of meaning, for some their area is great, for others their range of meaning can be very restricted.
The word "season" even in English has a range of meaning, not just the seasons (summer, fall, etc.). Poetically it is used for much shorter periods, such as the "season to be jolly" which, according to tradition, lasted 12 days, or the "Easter season" which lasted 8 days. Thus, even if you use "season" in Jeremiah 8:7, it does not necessarily correspond to the seasons as in summer, fall, etc.
But at question isn't the English word "season" but the Hebrew "MW(D", what does it mean? Does it include the four seasons as in summer, fall, etc.? I see no evidence whatsoever that it does.
Now back to Genesis 8:22: you have an idiosyncratic reading not shared by many, including myself.
That verse is one of the clues that those who hold to a young earth creation followed by a flood model of history claim that the antediluvian world had a completely different climate than the postdiluvian world; that the antediluvian world had no seasons as we know them today. This they derive from a linguistic analysis of the verse in the context of all of Genesis.
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