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  • From: "Reinier de Blois" <r.de.blois AT solcon.nl>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Offend/dealt corruptly - chet bet lamed (nehemiah 1:7)
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 09:03:25 +0200

Dear Karl,

> I just looked at your site and looked at all text examples
> where you have the meaning of corruption of destruction, and
> with the possible exception of one use in connections with a
> hapax legomai of uncertain meaning, none of the uses
> necessarily have a meaning connected with corruption. Some of
> the examples IMO actually work better with the "tied to" or
> "restricted" meanings than destruction or corruption meanings.

You make me curious. How would you handle Song of Songs 2:15: "Catch us
the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards."

Reinier





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