"phute'okicu" and other new animals

[Anthony Grant]

yes

>>> ""Alfred W. Tüting"" <ti at fa-kuan.muc.de> 01/24/08 6:16 pm >>>
(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"  ??? ?????


??????? ?????? ??? ?????, ????????  
???-?????
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)
> ?????
> 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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