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  • From: "Ishinan" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Leviticus 20:17
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:50:13 -0500

John Mark Butzu wrote:

Hi there. I was unable to find the list of how to properly post so I hope you will excuse my errors (if there are any). My question deal with the text of Leviticus 20:17 and the third word laqach... (I am
not sure how to properly transliterate this yet). Does this context suggest or imply "rape" or is it traditionally thought to mean something less aggressive?


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Proto- Semitic * lqH. has the primary sense of impregnation. Hence the Hebrew "lqkh" does not mean to rape or to take in marriage, but simply to impregnate. In other Semitic languages the term can also be used in the sense of fecundating palm trees.

Ishinan Ishibashi






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