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  • From: <tladatsi AT charter.net>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Judges 4:11 & Joshua 15:57
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 6:23:55 +0000

Judges 4:11 reads something like:


And Heber the Qeyniy leaving from Qayin from the sons of
Hobab the male-in-law of Moses...

In an earlier thread the translation Qeyniy and Qayin were
both Kenite (or Cainite). So Judges 4:11 was Heber was a
Kenite/Cainite who moved away from the other Kenites who
were the sons of Moses' in-law, Hobab...

However, in Joshua 15:57 there is town in Judea near Karmel
and Gibeah called the Qayin. Might Qayin in the context of
Judges 4:11 simply mean the town of the same name, rather
than the tribe. So might Judges 4:11 read

Heber the Cainite left the town of Cain where the sons of
Hobab, Moses' in-law, lived and pitched his tent...

Is that possible reading?

Jack Tladatsi





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