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Gawrah again and again
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Shalom Yochanan,

You may know this already, but I wanted to give a bit more of a background on the word imagery here.

In Aramaic (and, Hebrew) there are regular words for "man" ("Ish", "Anash" in Hebrew and Aramaic) and "woman" ("Ishah", "Nisha" in Hebrew and Aramaic).

In Aramaic (and, Hebrew) there are two words that are slang to denote "male" and "female" - those slang words are Gever (Aramaic Gawra) and Neqva (Aramaic Neqwa).

See the slang terms in action in Jeremiah 31:22:

Quote:???How long will you go here and there, O faithless daughter? For the Lord has created a new thing in the earth - A female [ neqva ] will encompass a male [ gever ].???

Why are the terms used above not Ish and Ishah ? The normal words in Hebrew for "man" and "woman"? For instance, see Genesis:

Quote:"This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. This one shall be called Woman (Ishah) for from Man (Ish) she was taken".

Why do I say these terms used in Jeremiah are slang, Akhi?

Well, to start off ... the root of Neqva~Neqwa (n-q-w) in both languages literally is a verb which means "to make a hole/to pierce." Pretty weird, huh? The term of course emphasizes the physiology of the female.

Likewise, the term Gever~Gowra in both languages is also used to refer to a "rooster" - guess why? Again, it's a slang word. "Gever" also happens to be a word that in Rabbinic Hebrew is used to refer to the male physiology.

Before I go on.....So why are these two slang terms used in the verse of Jeremiah above?
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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Gawrah again and again - by Yochanan5730 - 11-25-2008, 10:01 PM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Paul Younan - 11-25-2008, 11:22 PM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Stephen Silver - 11-26-2008, 03:43 AM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by ograabe - 11-26-2008, 04:50 PM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Yochanan5730 - 11-26-2008, 09:19 PM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by judge - 11-27-2008, 10:15 PM
Levistam Font - by Stephen Silver - 11-28-2008, 12:14 AM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Paul Younan - 11-28-2008, 05:55 AM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Mshikhaya - 11-28-2008, 09:04 AM
Re: Gawrah again and again - by Yochanan5730 - 12-27-2008, 11:08 AM

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