"phute'okicu" and other new animals
"Alfred W. Tüting"
ti at fa-kuan.muc.de
Thu Jan 24 18:16:33 UTC 2008
(for some reason, this didn't get through)
Let me add this:
this is the original text that actually speaks of a "huge fish" or
"dag gadol" דָּג גָּדוֹל
וַיְמַן יְהוָה דָּג גָּדוֹל, לִבְלֹעַ
אֶת-יוֹנָה
And the LORD prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah
Alfred
Am 24.01.2008 um 17:06 schrieb Alfred W. Tüting:
> Consulting my bookshelf, here are my two cents:
> "whale" in modern Ivrith still is "lifyathan" (lamed - vav - yud -
> thet - nun)
> לויתן
> Searching my dictionary for Biblical Hebrew for it yielded the very
> same word (same, yet vocalized, spelling), translated by "Riesentier
> Leviathan, Schlange, Krokodil".
>
> I'll be trying to retrieve the Hebrew original of that story telling
> of Jona in the whale/fish.
>
> Alfred
>
>
> Am 24.01.2008 um 05:50 schrieb Rankin, Robert L:
>> Not being well versed in matters theological, I may be wrong, but I
>> think 'great fish' more closely mirrors the original Hebrew text.
>> I'll have to check into the education of the translator to see if
>> this is an accident or a superior translation.
>>
>> Bob
>>
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>>> As a matter of interest, in the OT story of Jonas & the Whale,
>>> Buechel's Bible History Stories (1924) merely uses (p.127) :
>>> "HOGAN TANKA" [= big fish] for the famous 'whale'.
>>
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