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3rd OF 3 PAINTINGS FOUND TODAY; ANYONE READ HEBREW? LARGE PAINTING OF JEWISH "ROYALTY"? OR RABBI?
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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 904503, member: 5833"]Hebrew drives me nuts because so many letters look so much alike to the unpracticed eye & I have no way to know whether what I think a letter is makes sense in context, so I do this only a little better than a monkey could.</p><p><br /></p><p>I couldn't match the characters all the way to the right of the top line to any letters, so did what I could with the rest. For my best shot at the transliteration of the remainder of the top line, IM Translator gave me an assortment of possibilities related to 'to be': exist, survive, live. For the second line it gave me a single reading: 'get scared'. Obviously something has been lost. Could be an exhortation to live in awe (of God). Totally guessing. Anyway, was hoping for a name. What I put in was:</p><p><br /></p><p>ו חיה</p><p>זחדו[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 904503, member: 5833"]Hebrew drives me nuts because so many letters look so much alike to the unpracticed eye & I have no way to know whether what I think a letter is makes sense in context, so I do this only a little better than a monkey could. I couldn't match the characters all the way to the right of the top line to any letters, so did what I could with the rest. For my best shot at the transliteration of the remainder of the top line, IM Translator gave me an assortment of possibilities related to 'to be': exist, survive, live. For the second line it gave me a single reading: 'get scared'. Obviously something has been lost. Could be an exhortation to live in awe (of God). Totally guessing. Anyway, was hoping for a name. What I put in was: ו חיה זחדו[/QUOTE]
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