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  • From: "UUC" <unikom AT paco.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Is51:9
  • Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 22:17:49 +0300

Dear Harold,

hzv, again, has positive, creative connotation. The example you offered,
Hos6:5, only proves my point:

I hewed (hzv) them by the prophets

Prophets didn't kill or cut to pieces, they hewed people into good Jews.

Now, returning to Is51:9,

mahzevet is causative of hzv, so, made the one to hew, therefore,

Are not you the one who made the rahab (Egypt) who hews the stones (made
pyramids?), [and the one who] shocks the crocodile (pharaoh; makes him
tremble, or empties)

The meaning is that the power of Almighty is two-folded, to give and to empty
of, to help and to make tremble.


Sincerely,

Vadim Cherny




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