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<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">I want to have a better understanding about the words NA and ATA in Hebrew, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">Seems to me that NA is not just “now” or just “please”. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">As for the word ATA, and more “VE’ATA”, based on the pesukim, it sounds in many places as “therefore”, rather than “now”.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">In Vayera “IM NA MATZATI CHEN”, Unkelos translates NA as “Kean”. “Kean” is known as “now”, but does really Unkelos mean “now”? i am not sure if “kean” is always “now”, and if it is “now” in this pasuk. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">Also I curious to know why Yonatan Ben Uziel translates NA in this pasuk as “bevau” and “kadun”. This shows me that NA is not exactly “please” and not exactly “now”.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">I am aware what Rashi says about the word NA, and what the Ibn Ezra says, but their perushim not always work when I try to replace NA with what their explanation.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;" class="">On the pasuk “Erda Na ve’er’e ha’ke’tza’a’tah,”, it is hard for me to accept that here NA is “Please”, but also I am not sure that it means “now” . I don’t see why the adverb “now” is needed here<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed;" class="">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">I am sure people wrote about the word “NA”. I am interested to know what your opinion on this word. More than this, I would like to know what “Kean” is. Seems to me that it is more than “now.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Thanks,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';" class="">Aharon</p></body></html>