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  • From: Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>
  • To: Heard Christopher <Christopher.Heard AT pepperdine.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:45:07 -0500

At 01:37 PM 12/22/2004, you wrote:


Yet our ideas about what "ancients ... would have seen" is not a solid basis
on which to make philological claims. Are there any _attested_ uses of the
verb ZR( taking a masculine subject and meaning "to impregnate"? I can't
find any in the Tanakh. Am I missing them?

Chris


The verb occurs in the Niphal in Nu 5:28, and And Nah 1:14 (as a variant). These are the two occurrences that describe a woman becoming impregnated- but there are simply none in which she does the impregnating.

Jim


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