Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Trevor & Julie Peterson" <06peterson AT cua.edu>]

It seems like there were really two distinct questions here. I agree that "fear" is probably a more straightforward gloss to identify this word; and no, it's not the same word as what typically gets translated "righteousness" (tsedek).

 

The second question might refer to a different word altogether--khesed, which is notoriously difficult to translate into English but probably gets rendered both as "righteousness" and "charity" in English versions. It is often understood as something like "covenant faithfulness," but I don't know that that really captures the sense either. It has nothing to do with this verse.

 

Trevor Peterson

CUA/Semitics

-----Original Message-----
From: Ausra Pazeraite [mailto:apazera AT yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 5:20 AM
To: Biblical Hebrew
Subject: Re: Job 4:6

In Hebrew - yir'atha - your fear [of God]

Ausra Pazeraite

Religious Studies' Centre

Vilnius University 

Lithuania

  Eric Hill <bhebrew AT hotmail.com> wrote:

Is the term "piety" used here the same as our word "righteousness" or is
it something different? I have often heard that what we translate as
"righteousness" should better be translated as "charity". Is this true?

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