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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalm 22:16 - daqar as pierced ?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:11:37 -0400

At 05:01 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
Dear Moshe,
> Harold, none of the variants can correctly translated as 'pierced.'
> The word in Hebrew and Greek means to dig (as in digging a hole).
HH: A nail would dig a hole in your hands and
feet, but "pierced" is more idiomatic English. The
Old Greek translation of the Tanakh has the verb
ORUSSW here (LXX Ps. 21:17), which means dig. It
also has it at Ps 40:6, of God digging, or
opening, the ear in creating a human being. So
while the literal translation would be dig, the
concept in English might be rendered as pierced.


Harold, words mean something. KRU cannot be distorted to mean pierced, when it means to dig (a hole). A truck is not a wheelbarrow even though both have four wheels.

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