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 Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:22 am
I'm no expert on Hebrew (although I find it to be the most beautiful romantic language ever, French can bugger off), but in Hebrew I have gathered that many things are changed to plural with the suffix -im, so in the Hebrew Torah is G-d plural? Actually even more peculiar is Genesis 1:26: Quote: "And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness..." Why does it refer to "Us" and "Our"?
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Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:36 am
itsthatKat I'm no expert on Hebrew (although I find it to be the most beautiful romantic language ever, French can bugger off), but in Hebrew I have gathered that many things are changed to plural with the suffix -im, so in the Hebrew Torah is G-d plural? Actually even more peculiar is Genesis 1:26: Quote: "And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness..." Why does it refer to "Us" and "Our"? Go to the Jewish Information subforum, and take a look at the recent thread started by The Fabulous Prince Babel.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:29 am
Short answers:
1. "Elohim" uses the plural verb form to express greatness, not plurality. This is fairly common in Biblical Hebrew.
2. "Let us make humanity in our image" is using the "royal We," again, expressing greatness rather than plurality.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 9:33 am
The interpretation I've heard from little children (must've gotten it from some children's book) is that 'We' was G-d adressing animals about the upcoming creation of humanity.
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 2:42 pm
Quote: 1. "Elohim" uses the plural verb form to express greatness, not plurality. This is fairly common in Biblical Hebrew. 2. "Let us make humanity in our image" is using the "royal We," again, expressing greatness rather than plurality. Hmm, can you direct me to other areas where it uses the plural in this way? Quote: The interpretation I've heard from little children (must've gotten it from some children's book) is that 'We' was G-d adressing animals about the upcoming creation of humanity. If he was talking to animals why did he refer to making man in "our" image, as if he planned to give men those cute little duck bills or whiskers... or something, I mean, I want whiskers...
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:15 pm
Facial hair is sometimes called whiskers, so the species kind of does have them. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:41 pm
And the platypi get the duck bills!
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:42 pm
Behatzlacha-S itsthatKat I'm no expert on Hebrew (although I find it to be the most beautiful romantic language ever, French can bugger off), but in Hebrew I have gathered that many things are changed to plural with the suffix -im, so in the Hebrew Torah is G-d plural? Actually even more peculiar is Genesis 1:26: Quote: "And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness..." Why does it refer to "Us" and "Our"? Go to the Jewish Information subforum, and take a look at the recent thread started by The Fabulous Prince Babel. I didn't think that thread could be used for educational purposes...
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The Fabulous Prince Babel
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:51 pm
Behatzlacha-S And the platypi get the duck bills! And the egg- laying. Mammals can have that, too, apparently.
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:38 am
Quote: And the platypi get the duck bills! If anything, the platypus proves G-d didn't just plant cannabis seeds for humans.
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The Fabulous Prince Babel
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 1:00 pm
The Platypus was made to baffle Europeans, duh.
Perfectly logical if you take a Native's point of view.
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:43 pm
The platypus is the only mammal to have a bill, lay eggs and have venom. I bet the Colonials were trying to figure out why the locals had squashed a duck-beaver and made it eat adders...
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 2:55 pm
And why they'd stuck a horn on a horse and enlarged a lizard with wings and..
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:00 pm
But what was MOST confusing was the fact that rats kept standing up, bouncing about and boxing...
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 3:01 pm
I think you forgot the part about the growing and having pouches.
But I feel weird about discussing Shtuyot on a thread with this title.
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