[Mesorah] Fwd: KEAN, NA, VE'ATA

[Aharon Gal]

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> From: Aharon Gal <galsaba at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mesorah] KEAN, NA, VE'ATA
> Date: November 25, 2019 at 4:49:20 AM EST
> To: Akiva Miller <akivagmiller at gmail.com>
> Cc: mesorah at aishdas.org
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> The word “hinay” appears in the mikra about 800 times. 
> On your list you included “hinay” and” henna". I am not sure if “hinay" and “henna" have the same meaning.
> We can check if all 800 “hinay” have the same meaning, but
> I thought may be as a first step we should narrow it down to “hinay-na”. 
> “hinay-na”  that appears only 24 times, and they may have the same meaning. 
> 
> Aharon
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>> On Nov 24, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <mesorah at lists.aishdas.org> wrote:
>> 
>> We have spoken about how "na" means "now" and is also used for emphasis.
>> I wonder if the same might apply to "hinay", which means "here" and is also used for emphasis.
>> Consider the following examples, all of them from Bereshis:
>> 
>> 12:11 - Hinay na yadati - Look, I do know
>> 18:2 - Hinay shlosha anashim - Behold! Three men were...
>> 21:23 - Hish'ava li bElokim hayna - Swear to me by G-d here and now
>> 22:7 - Hinay ha'esh v'haetzim - Here are the fire and the wood
>> 24:51 - Hinay Rivka l'fanecha - Here is Rivka in front of you
>> 37:19 - Hinay baal hachalomos halazeh ba - Here comes the dreammaster
>> 44:28 - V'lo r'eeseev ad hayna - I have not seen him to this point
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Akiva Miller
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