Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 31/03/2006 03:52, Steve Miller wrote:
> > ...
> [Steve Miller] Correction, I misused Peter's refs. They weren't meant to be
> exhaustive. The word "dedicated" does refer to someone's personal house in
> Deut 20:5.
>
>   
My references were intended to be exhaustive for the noun XANUKKAH, 
which does seem to be used mostly in religious contexts - although the 
dedication of the wall in Nehemiah 12:27 was not of a specifically 
religious structure, but its dedication was a religious event. But they 
did not cover the verb XNK, which is indeed used of an ordinary family 
house, although maybe the dedication in view was some kind of religious 
ceremony.

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