Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

In Gen. 22:7, Isaac asks his father, "veayyeh hasseh le(olah", translated (in 
this case by KJV) "but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?".

The Vulgate, however, translates "seh le(olah", as "victima holocausti". Why 
is "seh" a "victim". I realize that "victim" here means "sacraficial 
offering", but why not use a more specific word for "lamb", such as "agnus" - 
especially considering the Christian understanding of this passage as being a 
preconfiguration of the Crucifixion of THE lamb?

Might the translator (Jerome?) have understood the word "seh" to be a general 
term for "sacraficial offering", rather than a name for a specific animal?

(Please excuse the cross-posting).

Yigal
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On 27/09/2004 07:21, Yigal Levin wrote:

>In Gen. 22:7, Isaac asks his father, "veayyeh hasseh le(olah", translated 
>(in this case by KJV) "but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?".
>
>The Vulgate, however, translates "seh le(olah", as "victima holocausti". Why 
>is "seh" a "victim". I realize that "victim" here means "sacraficial 
>offering", but why not use a more specific word for "lamb", such as "agnus" 
>- especially considering the Christian understanding of this passage as 
>being a preconfiguration of the Crucifixion of THE lamb?
>
>Might the translator (Jerome?) have understood the word "seh" to be a 
>general term for "sacraficial offering", rather than a name for a specific 
>animal?
>
>
>
One issue perhaps is that "seh" is more generic than "lamb", for it can
also refer to young goats.

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