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  • From: "Matthew Bell" <mbkbell AT aapi.co.uk>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: The use of 'ken' in Exodus 7:22
  • Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:31:35 -0000


M.BELL
Could anyone provide me with the following information:

a) the meaning and root of the hebrew word 'ken'

b) whether the context of Exodus 7:20,21can materially affect the meaning of
the word ken as used in 7:22.

To explain b) a little more clearer.

In 7:20,21 Moses/Aaron change all the water previously mentioned in vs 17-19
to
blood. Verse 22 states that the magicians 'did so (ken) with their
enchantments'.

I can't see how the magicians could have done so to the same extent as
Moses/Aaron since most of the water in Egypt had been turned to blood, hence
consider that there is a textual restriction on ken being understood as did
the
same in nature and to the same extent.

Is this a valid understanding of the hebrew word 'ken' in its context?

Thanks
M.Bell




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