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  • From: kenneth hoglund <hoglund AT wfu.edu>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Translating Ezekiel 16:26
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 21:26:20 -0400

Chris et al.--

The 2001 Study edition of the Koehler-Baumgartner Lexicon gives BASAR as "penis" in Syriac and shows Lev 15.2ff, 7 as well as Ezek 16.26 and 23.20. But, in a somewhat contradictory fashion, provides "great of flesh" for Ezek 16.26 under GADEL.

In the Jewish Study Bible, the JPS translation has "lustful" but the footnote reads "Lit. 'big of phallus'" and cites 23.20.

Since GADEL has the sense of "enlarged" (as in 2 Chron 17.12) your proposed understanding would seem to make the most sense of an unusual expression.

Ken Hoglund
Prof. of Religion
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem NC




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