Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Andrew:

The New K&B give the following:

the beaten metal plate or bow; firmament, the the firm vault of heaven:
Sept. steoroma, vulg. firmamentus; by raqi`a was understood ths gigantic
healvenly dome which was the source of the light that brooded over the
heavenly ocean and of which the dome arched above the earthly globe. (see
von Rad TWNT 5:501),.

It then goes on to give the meanings of raqi`a by itself and then with the
verb "haya" (to be).

I would check Botterweck and Ringgren's TDOT and Van Gemeren's DOTTE
in additon to what you've already checked

Kevin


At 09:08 AM 4/19/99 +0930, you wrote:
>Does anyone here have the latest English edition of Kohler-Baumgardner? Or
>anything else comparable? I am after the most accurate definition of the
>semantic range of RaQiYa but I only have BDB and TWOT.
>
>The LXX renders it as STEREOMA, and BDB gives firmanent as a possible
>rendering, suggesting that it is firm and solid, but TWOT suggests that this
>is an import of Greek cosmology from the time the LXX was put together.
>
>cheers,
>Andrew
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