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Nope. Appetite. Work with the context.
You don't see many things, Karl, because you work only with your own lexical dictionary, rather than work with semantics and contexts. That's fine for you, but the rest of us will work with contexts.
GEORGE ATHAS
Dean of Research,
Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au)
Sydney, Australia
From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, 13 January 2013 4:18 PM To: George Athas <george.athas AT moore.edu.au> Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecclesiastes 6:9 ³better than going ??² George:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:17 PM, George Athas
<George.Athas AT moore.edu.au> wrote:
NP$ as a verb has the basic idea of breathing as in being alive, to take a breather, to revive. As a noun it refers to all of these activities. I translate the noun as “life” knowing full well that the English word nowhere comes close
to all the nuances carried by the Hebrew NP$.
My life will be filled… speaking of pharaoh and his soldiers who were thinking that they would make their lives more full with captives and treasure.
“dogs strong of life” i.e. lively
“lifting up their lives” i.e. making an effort
“fill their lives”
Again the phrase of lifting up a life, i.e. putting in the effort. This is probably the closest of all the verses here, in that it’s used in parallel to desire of a specific person or thing, but even here “appetite” is not a necessary understanding of
the word in its context.
“lifting up a life” making an effort towards their perversions
to fill a life that’s empty because he’s hungry.
master of his own life
“broad of life” i.e. imposing his will on others
Unless you are using “appetite” in a way that I have never seen anyone before use it, not once in these verses does “appetite” fit. I don’t see from where you get this idea that it means “appetite” in these verses.
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