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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Offend/dealt corruptly - chet bet lamed (nehemiah 1:7)
  • Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:17:33 -0500

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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