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  • From: Polycarp66 AT aol.com
  • To: brocine AT earthlink.net, b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Psa 118:27b
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:45:12 EDT

In a message dated 6/29/2002 9:26:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, brocine AT earthlink.net writes:


'isru Hag Ba`abotim `al qarnot hammizbeaH

English translations of this verset mostly fall into two
schools represented below by the NJPS and the NIV.

NJPS:  "Bind the festal offering to the horns of the altar
with cords."

NIV:  "With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up
to the horns of the altar."

Do you think one is more likely?  Why?


XaG does signify a feast or a festal procession.  To take it to signify the sacrificial victim may seem somewhat unusual, but I don't think it is really very strange at all.  It is a case of the most significant event of the feast being given the designation of the feast itself.  Consider also Mal 2.3

XiG:NiY Go("R LfKeM )eT_HaZ.eRa( W:Z"RiYTiY PeRe$ (aL_P.:N"YCeM **P.eRe$ HaG."YKeM** . . .

Here PeRe$ HaG."YKEM could not reasonably refer to either the feast itself or to a festal procession.  "The dung of your feast" must refer to the victim sacrificed.

gfsomsel


  • Psa 118:27b, Bryan Rocine, 06/29/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • RE: Psa 118:27b, Peter Kirk, 06/29/2002
    • Re: Psa 118:27b, Polycarp66, 06/30/2002

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