Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Reinier:

If I were a vitner, I would like to have foxes around. Foxes don’t ruin 
vineyards, but they do hunt and catch things like mice, rats, moles and other 
things that do ruin vineyards. If I remember correctly, they even like to eat 
caterpillars. Foxes are also small, so the only human crops they threaten are 
newborn lambs and fowl.

I see this verse calling for holding onto the little foxes connected to (tied 
to) the vineyard as a way to protect the vineyard and help it flourish.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinier de Blois" <r.de.blois AT solcon.nl>

> 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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