Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear B-Hebrew:

While reading through Judges 3, the word PR$DN caught 
my eye, it is a hapax legomai, could it mean "wardrobe"? 
In other words, where the king's clothes were spread out 
prior to his wearing them? If so, it would be connected to 
the root PR$ / PR% meaning to spread out, used in the 
contexts as cloth, book (scroll), net, entrails (for 
divination), sail, etc.

I know what the traditional translations have stated, but 
I wonder if the translators were depending too much on 
what happened later to assign a definition to the term? 
But from the context, would it have happened that way? 
It sounds like Eglon took Ehud into his antechamber to 
speak privately with him and Ehud made up a story to 
explain why Eglon was not coming out right away.

What say ye?

Karl W. Randolph.

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