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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: 22nd Psalm & 40th Psalm
  • Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:15:33 -0500

Bravo, Peter, you may have something here.

In my dictionary, the word used in Daniel 7:15 is listed under KRH and not
KR) but I think that is a minor point here so I won’t quibble, just make a
note and then be silent.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>

An alternative suggestion: I just spotted in BDB the biblical Aramaic root KR' which means, in the ithpeal, "be distressed", and with Akkadian and Arabic as well as Syriac cognates (which are distinct from those of Hebrew KRH). I wonder if this was also a Hebrew verb, otherwise unattested, and that K'RW in Psalm 22 (just KRW in some MSS) is an error for KR'W. If the Aramaic ithpeal is "be distressed", the Hebrew qal could well be "they wounded", which fits the context. It would then be necessary to suppose that the true meaning was lost by the time LXX was translated, and that the variants are various attempts to reconstruct this as "they dug" or "like a lion".

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