http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/01/10/snoring-biblical-and-otherwise-the-real-reason-for-jonahs-flight/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/01/10/snoring-biblical-and-otherwise-the-real-reason-for-jonahs-flight/comment-page-1/#comment-450 Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot » Blog Archive » Jonah’s “Big Fishâ€? Story 3: Jonah and the Sailors (1:1-16) Sun, 26 Mar 2006 10:02:22 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/wp2/?p=272#comment-450 [...] וַיֵּרָדַ×? – The verb רד×? means “deep sleep” and is from the same root as the noun used to describe Adam’s sleep when the woman was taken out of his side in Gen 2:21. The Septuagint translates רד×? with the verb ῥέγχω “snore,” which adds some humour to the scene as Jonah’s snoring was apparently loud enough for the captain of the ship to hear him from above deck as he comes down to Jonah and asks him what is he doing snoring when a life threatening storm has been thrown to the sea by YHWH (see my post on snoring here)! [...]

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