Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>]

>"[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