29 march 2025

John Bjarne Grover

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TEQ #449
Exodus 16:4     ויאמר יהוה אל-משה הנני ממטיר לכם לחם מן-השמים ויצא העם ולקטו דבר-יום ביומו למען אנסנו הילך בתורתי אם-לא

Man has made the wrong proposition from binding me - that I don't
      of the mean and tragic snub.                                                10.03.99

                  Sidney

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The poem - from my 'The Endmorgan Quartet' book 8 "Diplomadery and Descendature" - is approximately as long as the parallel text - and a theory could be made telling that the two texts could be the same. Would the conversion key be contained in the signature 'Sidney'? The verse from Exodus can be translated in such a way that it appears more relevant - here is my poem in the lefthand column and the Exodus verse to its right, with my tentative explanations - available lexical sources are not in complete conformity with each other:

Man	ויאמר
	wayomer
	and said
has	יהוה
	IHWH, Jehova
	God
	אל-
	al-
	to
made	משה
	Moshe
	Moses, silk
the wrong	הנני
	hinǝni
	behold me - here I am
propo-	ממטיר
	mamǝtir
	an embittered drop/tear
	rain of God
-sit-	לכם
	lakem
	for you(r)
-ion	לחם
	lehem
	eat, consume, food, fruit, bread
from	מן-
	min
	manna, whoever, their part, hair, string, to divide, apportion
bind-	השמים
	hashamayim
	the high, towards heaven
-ing	ויצא
	wǝyatsaɁ
	to go out, go forth, issue, escape, shoot forth, finish, bring to an end; go out for war, rising of sun or stars
me	העם
	haʕam
	the connection, people, family, darken (?)
that	ולקטו
	wǝlakǝtu
	to collect, gather
I	דבר-
	dǝbar
	speak, range in order, connect, word, speech, plague, pasture
don-	יום
	yom
	day
-'t	ביומו
	bǝyomo
	to day
	= from day to day, days arranged in order
of the	למען
	lǝmaʕan
	answer, pronounce, bend down, duck/bow down, bother oneself, marital duty, sing
mean	אנסנו
	Ɂanassenu
	be hit, beaten, lame, beat
and	הילך
	hayalek
	to go
	behold, here you are
tragic	בתורתי
	bǝtorati
	throw, cast, sprinkle, fear, be afraid, education, teaching, "thread with pearls in serial order"
snub	אם-
	Ɂim
	if, supposing, though, when
	לא
	laɁ
	not

And said IHWH/God to Moses: Behold, here I am - a [bitter?] drop of rain to your food - hairstrings towards heaven - the rising of the stars - the connection/people (they) collect for speaking word-by-word (as) day-by-day, pronouncing the beaten (humbled?) "behold, here you are" - God's guidance when there are no (stars to be seen on the firmament).

The normal translation tells "manna from heaven" instead of "hairstrings towards heaven".

SI-d       tell it to the
NI-f       tel e phone



(There was a partial solar eclipse in Europe today, cp. the העם. The eclipse was visible in an area that was appr. on the other side of the earth relative to Sidney. See Gesenius page 600 - screenshot from this source. See also Davidson. I notice this screenshot from Gesenius p.595).

PS on 31/3-25: I do not now recall what was the reason for the indentation of the second line. According to the handwritten manuscript it seems that I had originally intended it to be un-indented.

As to the definition "be hit, beaten, lame, beat" of אנסנו, I cannot recall where I had it from (when I translated this some years ago) but there is some basis for it in e.g. Davidson in the form נוס (also Gesenius נוס).

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Sources:

Davidson, B.: The analytical hebrew and chaldee lexicon. London 1855.

Genesius, W.: Hebräisches und Aramäisches Handwörterbuch über das Alte Testament. 17.Auflage. Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1962.

Steurer, R.M.: Das Alte Testament (Interlinearübersetzung), Hänssler 1989

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