<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Aharon Gal <<a href="mailto:galsaba@aol.com" class="">galsaba@aol.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [Mesorah] KEAN, NA, VE'ATA</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">November 25, 2019 at 4:49:20 AM EST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Akiva Miller <<a href="mailto:akivagmiller@gmail.com" class="">akivagmiller@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:mesorah@aishdas.org" class="">mesorah@aishdas.org</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">The word “hinay” appears in the mikra about 800 times. <br class=""> On your list you included “hinay” and” henna". I am not sure if “hinay" and “henna" have the same meaning.<br class="">We can check if all 800 “hinay” have the same meaning, but<br class="">I thought may be as a first step we should narrow it down to “hinay-na”. <br class="">“hinay-na” that appears only 24 times, and they may have the same meaning. <br class=""><br class="">Aharon<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 24, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Akiva Miller via Mesorah <<a href="mailto:mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" class="">mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">We have spoken about how "na" means "now" and is also used for emphasis.<br class="">I wonder if the same might apply to "hinay", which means "here" and is also used for emphasis.<br class="">Consider the following examples, all of them from Bereshis:<br class=""><br class="">12:11 - Hinay na yadati - Look, I do know<br class="">18:2 - Hinay shlosha anashim - Behold! Three men were...<br class="">21:23 - Hish'ava li bElokim hayna - Swear to me by G-d here and now<br class="">22:7 - Hinay ha'esh v'haetzim - Here are the fire and the wood<br class="">24:51 - Hinay Rivka l'fanecha - Here is Rivka in front of you<br class="">37:19 - Hinay baal hachalomos halazeh ba - Here comes the dreammaster<br class="">44:28 - V'lo r'eeseev ad hayna - I have not seen him to this point<br class=""><br class="">Thoughts?<br class=""><br class="">Akiva Miller<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Mesorah mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org" class="">Mesorah@lists.aishdas.org</a><br class="">http://lists.aishdas.org/listinfo.cgi/mesorah-aishdas.org<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>