Thursday, August 7, 2014

Bit at a time Bible Hebrew -- Vocabulary Review IV

As usual, the words above the line are the more common ones. 
 
בְּהֵמָה
Domestic animal
אֲדָמָה
Earth, dirt, land
וַיִּתֵּן
He put
אֹתָם
them (direct object)
יְבָרֶךְ
He  blessed (aorist)
לֵאמֹר
To say
פְּרוּ
Be fruitful
רֶמֶשׂ
Creeper
יִרֶב
 Multiply (future)
מִלְאוּ
fill
יִּבְרָא
He created
תַּנִּינִם
Serpents
גְּדֹלִים
Big, great, large
רֹמֶשֶׂת
Creeps
כָּנָף
wing
יִשְׁרְצוּ
they shall swarm
שֶׁרֶץ
swarm
נֶפֶשׁ
soul
חַיָּה
wild animal, living thing
עוֹף
flier, bird
יְעוֹפֵף
fly (v)
רְבִיעִי
Fourth
לִמְשֹׁל
To control
נַעֲשֶׂה
We shall make
אָדָם
Man, people
צֶלֶם
Image, form
דְמוּת
Likeness, similitude
יִרְדּוּ
They shall subjugate
דָג
fish
זָכָר
male
נְקֵבָה
female
 
 
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3 comments:

  1. Sorry i have to correct you a bit
    ויתן=he will give / יברך= he will bless/ לאמר = so to say /יברא =he will create /תנינם=crocodiles
    mirjam

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  2. Deuteronomy 32:33 uses taninim as a parallel to poisonous snakes so I stuck with that.

    On "will", see the discussion on Genesis 1:5. The aorist is a past tense that looks like a future tense. It's an immediate past tense -- more recent than the past tense of Hebrew.
    This comes out on Genesis 4:1 where the rabbinic commentary is that use of the past tense means Qain and Hevel were conceived and born in Gan Eden, even though that episode has ended in chapter 3. But when it discusses the offerings the boys brought, it's back to aorist.
    Greek also has an aorist but it's not exactly like the future as in Hebrew, it just has a couple of similar features so it's easier to be sure of.

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  3. OK all you movie mavens out there, do you remember the scene in the Ten Commandments where Moshe and Aaron produce the snakes?
    So see Mirjam's comment above and imagine Cecil B. DeMille insisting NO, NOT SNAKES, CROCODILES! It would have been a whole different scene.

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