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Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas

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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Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas , (continued)
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Revdpickrel, 12/21/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Moshe Shulman, 12/21/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Moshe Shulman, 12/22/2004
    - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Jim West, 12/22/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
      - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Heard, Christopher, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/21/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/22/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Jim West, 12/22/2004
  - Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Harold R. Holmyard III, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, Karl Randolph, 12/22/2004
- Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 3:15 and order of ideas, George F Somsel, 12/22/2004