Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Dale,
     Have you seen Keil's old suggestion that the word simply refers to
"women"? He translates:

"the service of thy timbrels and of thy women was with thee, on the day
that thou wast created, they were prepared."

Keil takes N:QFBIYM as a plural of N:Q"BFH, formed like the masculine,
after the analogy of NF$IYM and P.L.AG:$IYM. He considers it "the harem
pomp of oriental kings. He sees the word service used as in Gen 29:11.
These things would have been made ready for the king on his coronation day.
He sees God as responsible for the king's position in this analogy between
the king of Tyre and Adam in Paradise.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard


>Has anyone run across a discussion of the meaning of NEQEB in Ezk 28:13
>which suggests meanings not based on the Hebrew "hole", ie., socket for a
>gem (which seems to make nonsense of TOP "tamborine"), but rather:
>
>1) Ugaritic nqbn "part of horse's harness", or,
>2) Hebrew NQB with the meaning "to denote, mark", as it occurs in Amos 6:1
>and the Nifal
>
>Paired with TOP, the first might refer to some sort of decoration or
>musical instrument (made from parts that resemble the parts of a horse's
>harness); the second might refer to some sort of insignia or special
>markings.  Or...??