Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Hal Goodnight <jwdefender17 AT yahoo.com>]

Clay Bartholomew wrote:

"The following verse explains it; no?
If not then what are you driving at?"

Basically, I'm wondering what an ancient Israelite had in mind
when he heard/read those words. Just what exactly was he thinking
when he literally poured the blood out and covered it with dust?
Does Lev. 17:13 call to mind the concept of disposal/destruction/ruining
of blood so as to prevent the eating of it? Or does it call to mind 
something else entirely? If the former, do you feel there is any particular
emphasis on one part of the concept over the other (i.e. DISPOSAL being 
emphasized over RUINING)?

These questions may seem stupid or redundant, but it's something I've been
wondering lately.

Regards,

Mark Davis.


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On 25/08/2003 05:18, furuli AT online.no wrote:

>
> Dear Peter,
>
> I have often wondered if those who say that a word does not have 
> meaning without a context (or is "meaningless without specific textual 
> contexts,") have for themselves defined the key word they are using, 
> namely, *meaning* . Therefore I ask you.  Is "meaning" the same as 
> "reference", or is it "concept", or is it something else?
>
> Would you really say that the bare Hebrew words such as $eleg 
> ("snow"), )i$ ("man") and QF+AL "kill" are without *meaning*, like the 
> word gobbledygook written in Hebrew characters would have been for the 
> Hebrew mind?  If these words have meaning without a context, would not 
> the same be true with NEPE$?
>
> Best regards
>
> Rolf Furuli
>
>>  about words being "meaningless without specific textual contexts".
>
>
Well, actually I was not entirely agreeing with Jim on this. My point 
was that the meaning of a word like "soul" apart from a specific textual 
context may be quite unrelated to the meaning of it in a particular 
context in the Bible. If you ask some people what "soul" means out of 
context they will refer to a style of music. But if the same people read 
this word in context in the Bible, they will understand it in a totally 
different sense. Not meaningless out of context, but misleading out of 
context, which is potentially worse. If people know something is 
meaningless, they know they have to look elsewhere for the meaning. If 
something seems meaningful but the meaning is incorrect, people don't 
realise that they are misunderstanding.

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