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  • From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Psalm 20:3 "make fat your burnt sacrifices"
  • Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 14:03:42 -0400




Jim West wrote:

> The only thing I can figure is that the translation you have has rendered
> <heb> weolatheka yedashshenah </heb> by the phrase "make fat your burnt
> offerings". However, this is not exactly accurate, though <heb> dashan
> </heb> does indeed mean to "grow fat", in this context it is a technical
> term for acceptable or favorable. In other words, the psalmist is asking
> God to make his offering fat- so that it will be accepted as an offering.
> It does not mean that God takes some ashes and reconstitutes a cow with
> them. Fat animals were prime sacrifices. The psalmist wants God to make
> em acceptable (i.e., fat).

The verb also D$N also appears in a more familiar context in Psalm 23,
where
the Hebrew that is (I believe) generally translated as "you anoint my head
with oil" is *dishantah ba'shemen ro'shi*.

Lewis Reich






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