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  • From: "Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>
  • To: "'Jim West'" <jwest AT highland.net>
  • Cc: <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Psalm 20:3 "make fat your burnt sacrifices"
  • Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:02:47 -0500


>"[YHWH] shall make fat your burnt sacrifices"

<Jim>
What translation is this?

<Bill>
I think it is NKJV.

>Is the psalmist saying that God will take the charred remains of our
>sacrifices and turn them back into fat, healthy livestock?

<Jim>
...though <heb> dashan </heb> does indeed mean to "grow fat", in this
context it is a technical term for acceptable or favorable.

<Bill>
So are you saying that "make fat" is a literal gloss but not a dynamic
equivalent?

Bill Ross





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