Hey, like they say: urine, the big league now.
Credit for the very first use of the word “yadah” must be given to Adam & Eve:
Genesis 4:1:
“And Adam knew (Hebrew = yadah) Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.”
“Yadah” is biblical Hebrew for f__k. Whenever Adam had problems with the family, he screamed, “Yadah, yadah, yadah!” (f__k, f__k, f__k!)
Y-D-’ is also used for “know intimately” – not just for having sexual intimacy. When Pharaoh says, “Who is this God? I do not know him and I will not let your people go,” he’s not talking about sex.
But, thanks, tim, it’s a nice bilingual word-play. And welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, glad to have you with us!
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Hey, Wikkit, no sexual innuendo, please. < grin >
Good point Dexter, a more appropriate rendering of Genesis 4:1-2 would be:
“And Adam knew Eve; that is, they were able to feel/know each other to be together in appropriate personal intimacy in personal care and she conceived and bare children.”
Did they have kids before or after leaving the garden? I don’t remember the myth very well.
Anyway, if it was after, they wouldn’t be bare children; they’d have little fig leaves.
The intimacy occurred before the Fall-- which is quite useful to point out to certain people who, like the “Serpent”, twist the truth into something evil. The kids, however, came after the Fall; thus raising Cai . . . ah . . . never mind. . . .
Though Catholic theologians agree that Adam and Eve would have had sexual relations without the fall, the actual text of Genesis doesn’t say that they did.
Who was it, about thirty years ago, that wrote/sang a song whose refrain consisted mostly of yaddas? Melanie Safka maybe?