Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Dear David:

First it seems to me that the phrase in question is QCP (L and not (L Y$R)L

The phrase QCP (L where QCP is a noun appears eight times in Tenakh: Numbers 
1:53, 18:5, Joshua 9:20, Isaiah 34:2, Hosea 10:7, 1 Chronicles 20:24 and 2 
Chronicles 24:20, 29:8.

My dictionary says that QCP means “anger with a desire for vengeance” as 
compared with )P generalized anger, XMH “anger, as a poisonous feeling that 
leads to cruelty”, XRH “anger, in the sense of burning, heat of emotion”.

Thinking through my fingers, it appears that the phrase, either as a verbal 
phrase or as a noun phrase, has not only the meaning of anger, but includes 
also the idea of being disgusted with. Thus in 2 Kings 3:27 I understood the 
phrase to indicate that not only were the people angered at the barbarity of 
King Mesha sacraficing his son, but they turned away in disgust from having 
to face it.

By the way, I am running an older OS that the latest version of Netscape will 
not run on, namely Macintosh 9.1. As much as I like the Macintosh, it looks 
as if I will turn to Linux, but not yet. Most of my work is still on an older 
Macintosh, a 68K one running OS 8.1. Thus I am still depending on the 
transliterations as found on http://ibiblio.org/bhebrew/ .

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gray" <david_gray AT sil.org>

> I meant 2Ki 3:27 below:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I have a question re. this verse:
> קֶצֶף
> 
> (qetseph)
> 
> and the phrase
> 
> עַל־יִשְׂרָא֑ל
> 
> ('al-yisrael)
> 
> only occurs here and in 1Ch 27:24, where it is clearly God's anger against 
> Israel.
> 
> So whose qetseph and why did it come upon Israel here in 2Ki 3:27?
> 
> Yours hopefully, David Gray
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