Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Kevin W. Woodruff" <cierpke AT utc.campuscw.net>]

George:

This is a notoriously hard word. I would suggest that the noun form would
best be translated by "devoted" or "devoted things" and the verb by
"destroy" as is done by NIV

At 08:51 AM 1/25/99 +1100, you wrote:
>Does anyone have a good way of translating Hebrew XEREM, and the verbs
>associated with it (mostly in the Hiphil I think) into nice English
>equivalents? A word which captures the various aspects of XEREM?
>
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