Oh wow now that is interesting.  What you said about Leah's eyes and that
radio guy.  One word, no wonder you have a file on your site called words.

Lelia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: Fw: Re: bible question genesis


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Matt" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: bible question genesis
>
>
> > Matt,
> >
> > The only opinions of the rendering of that word, or phrase, concerning
her
> > eyes being tender, well, in the King James it says Tender eyed I
believe.
> > Let me look that up.  Just a second.  Yep, the old King James says she
was
> > tender eyed.  I looked up all the Hebrew words and it is very
interesting.
> > It is a contrast, of cource, because it says, Leah was tender eyed but
> > Rachael was beautiful and well favored.  So I go and look up all these
> > Hebrew words and am surprised to discover something I have never heard
> > before.  First, it can easily mean, Leah could not see well but Rachael
> > could.  It could also mean, Leah was not very pretty compared to
Rachael.
> > It can also mean a couple of other very unusual things.  First,
according
> to
> > the Hebrew, it could literally be referring to Leah's mental ability as
> in,
> > not as smart as her sister.  It could also mean Leah was not as mentally
> > stable as her younger sister.  When you look up the word favored,
> concerning
> > Rachael, it could also mean Rachael was spiritually more inclined than
her
> > older sister.  Based upon Rachael's thievery of her father's heathen
> idols,
> > I sort of get the impression that Rachael was as sneaky as her old man
was
> > and she thought his idols has some spiritual powers that she wanted for
> > herself.  This spirituality, of course, wouldn't be Godly either.  That
> one
> > little verse sure gets you thinking when you start studying it.  My
> favorite
> > radio preacher, he's been dead for many years, used to be a guy out of
> Texas
> > who took one word of the Bible and studied in for 30 minutes on the air.
> > Sometimes he went more than one program, too, on the same word.  He was
> very
> > interesting to listen to and I learned from him how important studying
> > individual words can be in the Bible.  I would go crazy without my
Online
> > Bible program and without the reference material contained with in the
> > program.  Hope that helped Matt.  Brad has some other resource material
> > there so maybe he will answer, if he hasn't already.
> >
> > Phil.
> >
> >
>