Abstract
The translation of n~i.n, which is usually taken to mean 'fields' 4), by 'rivers' in the Pesh (rei^-), Targ. ('rn), and Vulg. (flumina), is remarkable, and is not easily explicable. H. PINKUSS 5) records some remarks of NOLDEKE to the effect that the Syriac translator substituted for nin, which seemed to him superfluous side by side with rfl, what appeared to him to be a suitable word; or again, that he took nisin here as meaning 'highways', that is, natural caravan roads, such as wadies (rcLik) could be.N6LDEKE regards this second suggestion as somewhat artificial. VOGEL 6) believed that the Syriac translator in
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