Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Peter et al:

When looking in a concordance, I noticed not once where the verb KRH is 
usually translated as “to dig” that it could not be translated as “to 
furnish” as in preparing, providing. In many cases, the furnishing is 
accomplished by digging, as in wells, but what is communicated is the 
furnishing, not necessarily the means by which the furnishing was 
accomplished.

Now the answer for Psalm 22:17 may be found in Christopher Heard’s response 
where he mentions in Akkadian there was a very similar verb 
“is used in medical diagnostic texts to describe illnesses that disfigure the 
hands and/or feet.” That would make K)R, found also in Amos 8:8, 
to mean “to disfigure”—Psalm 22:17 “they disfigure my hands and feet” and in 
Amos 8:8 “injustice disfigures everything”.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> 
> On 25/04/2005 02:08, Heard, Christopher wrote:
> 
> This may be true of the Greek ORUSSW, but it is not true of the 
> Hebrew KRH. This Hebrew verb is used in Psalm 40:7 (v.6 in English 
> versions), )FZ:NAIYM K.FRIYTF L.IY, literally "you dug ears for 
> me". I accept that the meaning of this is rather obscure, and it is 
> not helped by the LXX (39:7) KATHRTISW "you prepared". But the 
> meaning probably relates either to ear piercing as in Exodus 21:6 
> (Hebrew RC(, found only here in the Hebrew Bible) or to God forming 
> the ear cavity in the body - so both a matter of piercing living 
> flesh.
> 
> ...
> 
> This might be an argument that KRH in Psalm 40 refers to forming 
> the ear rather than piercing it.
> 
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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