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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] BLG
  • Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 22:15:33 -0500

Dear Karl,

Dear List Members:

This root appears only five times in Tanakh, four times as a hiphil verb and once as a hiphil participle in a noun context. Any thoughts on its definition?

I looked up a dictionary and the definition given was to brighten up as in making cheerful, however all the contexts where it is used imply a destructive definition as in being consumed or destroyed.


HH: Try Job 9:27; 10:20; and Ps 39:14:

KJV:

Job 9:27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Job 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Psa. 39:13 O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

NIV:

Job 9:27 If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,'
Job 10:20 Are not my few days almost over? Turn away from me so I can have a moment's joy
Psa. 39:13 Look away from me, that I may rejoice again before I depart and am no more."

Also note the cognate MBLYG in Jer 8:18:

Jer. 8:18 O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

HH: BDB lists an Arabic cognate for the verb.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard








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