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  • From: Deborah Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Prov. 21:18
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 20:08:52 -0700 (PDT)

J. West wrote:

> Must we render kopher in
> the sense of "take the place"
> in order to render something
> like "the wicked take the
> place of the righteous"
> (in the same way that Haman
> took the place of Mordechai
> on the gallows)?

In what exact sense, I cannot say. But one thing's
for sure: the parallelism...

"v'tahat y'sharim boged"

...leaves little doubt that we have here a
*substitution* of the "rasha/boged for the
tzadiq/y'sharim. Can't worm our ways around that.
Interesting that the first hemistich features two
singulars (tzadiq and rasha) while the second has a
plural (y'sharim) and a singular (boged). Odd in one
sense, but it doesn't seem to affect the semantics at
all. Hmmmm, ...just thinking out loud. Thanks for
bringing up the verse, Jim.

KOL TUV,

--Michael Millier



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  • [b-hebrew] Prov. 21:18, Deborah Millier, 07/24/2003

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