A and B and C

A and B and C with normal spaces.

Method for putting in extra spaces: (secret)

A           and           B           and         C

So it is possible to put in extra spaces by typing -- well, I can't tell you what I typed, because it will just put a space.

Psalm Four

More exasperating attempts to cut and paste from Excel onto Blogger. It doesn't work, so I try plain typing. Replacing tabs with 9 spaces doesn't work. What's so hard about typing 9 spaces? Shouldn't 9 spaces take up more space than 1 space? I guess I just don't think like a computer.

ד.מ.מ. דֹמּוּ domu - be still!
פ.ל.ה. הִפְלָה hifla - he set apart - hifil
ז.ב.ח. זִבְחוּ zivkhu - offer! - piel
נ.ש.א. נְסָה nesa - lift thou up
י.ש.ב. תּוֹשִׁיבֵנִי toshiveni - thou makest me to dwell - hifil

Psalm Three

This one wasn't too hard, probably because I've read it many times.
One important word:

ש.י.ת. שתו shatu they set, placed

Now I have vocabulary lists on excel for Psalms 1, 2, and 3, with 43, 64, 48 words.

Psalm Two

This one is twice as long and quite a bit harder. There are seven words that I have seen infrequently. The hardest ones are:

י.ס.ר. הוסרו hivasru nifal imperative masc pl - be instructed or admonished

נ.פ.צ. תנפצם tenaptsem - thou shalt dash them in pieces

ר.ע.ע. תרעמ teroem - thou shalt break them

Whew. Typing Hebrew and English together causes serious directional problems. It's best not to look at the screen when you are typing because the cursor and sometimes periods jump all over. I'm not even going to attempt nikud at this point. (Ha-ha-ha, bilingual pun).

Pumpkins

Yesterday I saw at the store what look like sections of an odd kind of large pumpkin. Today I realized that it probably was pumpkin, and the reason is that it's Thansgiving. Someone told me that he does celebrate Thanksgiving, but on Friday. You can't get whole turkeys here, but you can get turkey.
I'm not crazy about the holiday--all that cooking and eating--but it's the best family time ever. Or could be. Or was.
The best part is the meal is the pumpkin pie. I like to make it my own way, and make enough pie to have at least half a pie for myself. And more for leftovers.
I could make pie just for old times' sake. And because it tastes good. But I'd have to buy pumpkin, flour, eggs, spices, sugar. I would probably cook the filling in my toaster oven and fry the crust in a frying pan, since I wouldn't trust my toaster oven to do a good job on a pie.
But that means I'd have to go out in the miserable rain and go to the store. Maybe I could do that tomorrow. We'll see.
Tonight it's beet-carrot-cabbage soup and leftover chicken. Not too bad, but it seems like something's missing.

Psalm One, Bibles

Psalm One wasn't too bad. I just need to remember עדת and עצת. Adat is congregation and atsat is counsel. And then there is על-כן, al-ken, therefore.

I use a Bible that has Hebrew on one side and English on the other. It has errors in it. For example it says "now sweet are thy words" instead of "how sweet are thy words." Also it capitalizes all the letters in "LORD" whether the original is יהוה or אדוני. There is also an error on one page in the verse numbering, and on another page The Hebrew and English aren't lined up right. This Bible is published by the Society for Distributing Hebrew Scripture. It is a nice size Bible for a diglot and easy to read, but pages are a bit thin and wrinkle easy.

Where's the House?

I can't find it! What do I do now? I used Blue Letter Bible to look up every use of the word "house" in the Psalms, and the verse I want isn't there!
It's a verse where there is a group of words where there is some dispute about where the space goes. There are about three places you could put the space, and they all make sense. I thought one of the words was בית , but now I'm not sure.
So that means I'll have to simply read through the entire book of Psalms again until I find it.
Oh well, it's time to read through them all again, anyway. This time I'll make a vocabulary list as I go, skipping over the ones that are infrequently used.
Psalm 1 I have read numerous times. It makes sense when I read it, but if I copy all the words and alphabetize them, will I still know the words out of context? That will be the test.