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|The Hebrew forms mean nothing to a modern reader

|The Hebrew forms mean nothing to a modern reader

|"Weak" and "Sick"

|"Weak" and "Sick"

|I think we could afford to be bold and translate these names. Footnotes are a cowardly choice. If we had ''the name of his two sons were Feeble and Poorly'', it'd make much more of an impression.

|I think we could afford to be bold and translate these names. Footnotes are a cowardly choice. If we had ''the name of his two sons were Feeble and Poorly'', it'd make much more of an impression. Response: A lot of Hebrew names in the Old Testament, particularly in the Book of Ruth, have translations. For instance, Esau means "hairy". We can't really translate all of them. The Book of Ruth is full of these more so than any other book. Naomi ("my delight") asks to be called Mara ("the bitter one"), Orpah means "gazelle" and comes from the root meaning "back of the neck", appropriate given how she turns her back on the people, Boaz means "fleetness", and Obed means "servant". We really can't translate all of these or it becomes nonsense. Where do we draw the line? I prefer footnotes, at least in the Old Testament which is so ripe with these names with literal meanings.

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