Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

I agree with the connection with Deuteronomy 10:12-13, but this particular
phrase is not there. In my previous post I suggested that the Hebrew might
have either originally read HKN, or at least been understood that way by the
LXX. It could also have read HKN(, "submit", although the syntax of "submit
the going with your God" is problematic.

Yigal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Crick" <ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Micah 6:8


> On Sat  5 Feb 2005 (23:04:52), dwashbur AT nyx.net wrote:
> > I'm wondering about the word HCN( in this verse.  It's a hapax; the
> > nearest  cousin is a passive in Proverbs that seems to speak of
> > humility.  But if the  word's meaning is clearly established as
> > "humbly" or "in humility" or  something like that, why did the LXX
> > translate it hETOIMON EINAI, "be  ready"???  The few commentaries etc.
> > that I have are no help, they just  assume the "standard" rendering and
> > move on.  I think it was Moffatt who  rendered it "in fellowship," and
> > I have no idea where that came from.  Any thoughts?
>
>  Micah 6:8 seems to be an allusion to Deuteronomy 10:12-13, where HiGGiYD
>  L:Ka 'aDaM already beforehand what YHWH requires.
>  The Qal passive participle in Proverbs 11:2 refers to those who are
unaffected
>  by pride; i.e., the lowly. As it is only the "lowly" who are "ready to
walk
>  with the LORD", then the LXX seems an interpretative gloss rather than a
>  literal translation. KAI hETOIMON EINAI TOU POREUSQAI META KURIOU QEOU
SOU
>  isn't a bad stab at W:HaC:NeaX LeKeT `iM-'e:LoHeYKa. "to bow down [the]
going
>  with thy God".
>
> /thoughts
>
>  Ben
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