<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 15, 2008 8:46 PM, <<a href="mailto:RallisW@aol.com">RallisW@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When in Shemos (7:8-13) Moshe and Aharon appear before Paroah and Aharon throws down his staff and it turns into a "Sanin" not "Nochosh." Could the term sanin refer to a dragon rather than the traditional snake?
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<br>The word sanin also appears in Bereshis (1:21), "taninim hagedolim.." usually translated as great sea giants. </div></blockquote><div><br>I translate this as simply dinosaurs [literally great lizards] which were both in the water and on land. OTOH a reptile is after all a reptile!
</div></div><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br><a href="mailto:RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com">RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com</a><br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>