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14 lut 2024 · Hebrew Word Study – Frustration – ‘Aneph – Aleph Pei. Job 27:3 “All the while my breath is in me but the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.” Translators have really played around with this verse. No one seems to know for sure whether to render this as the breath of God is in my nostrils or the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.
29 lip 2020 · God changes His mind because Moses makes his case. The event is what the text says it is—divine frustration. There is a small caveat here. The opening Hebrew word, ʿattâ, translated “now,” is a derivative of ʿānâ, a word that basically expresses “to answer, to respond, to speak.” This is Zornberg’s point.
5 gru 2014 · Where do you cross the line between anger, frustration, disappointment, confusion or even fear? Why does a camel snort? The Bedouins wished they knew they just called it ‘aneph. A camel may snort when being forced to do something against his will, it is then a cry of rebellion.
1 lip 2018 · Isaiah 13:9: “Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.”. It is so easy to use the words cruel wrath and fierce anger to scare you into salvation or church attendance and paying tithes.
While these may not have been actual expressions of anger at G-d, they certainly do show that great Jews have sometimes expressed much pain and frustration to G-d. Perhaps the most well-known source which describes one speaking harshly to G-d is the famous story of Choni HaMa’agel ( Ta’anit 19a):
In the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, nouns for God’s wrath appear some 375 times. 1 The word chemah refers to divine wrath at least 85 times. 2 It seems to receive its meaning from a root term that means “be hot” or “be ardent.” 3 Deuteronomy 29:23 declares that God overthrew Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim “in His anger and ...
Definition. to hinder, restrain, frustrate. NASB Translation. discouraged* (1), discouraging* (1), forbid (2), forbidden (1), forbids (1), frustrates (1), refuse (1). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved Lockman.org.
