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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] actual Hebrew question about Daniel 9:25
  • Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 18:46:51 -0500

Dear Kenneth,

Can the word "weeks" in Hebrew actually mean 7 days , so the 70 weeks could be 70 regular weeks possibly? Also, in Daniel 9:25 it says "weeks 7" and "weeks 62". In Hebrew, wouldn't it usually be written with the number before the noun? Are numbers written after the noun in other quotes besides these in Daniel?

HH: Yes, it can refer to a week of days. But it does not mean that here in Daniel 9. Check verse 27. Do you suppose the man makes a covenant with many people intended to last seven days? Then he breaks it after three-and-a-half days? This seems absurd. Also, too many events have to unfold in too short a time if the seventy weeks are days. And as I said, the framework of time is to the end of the age (v. 24). This becomes more apparent in chapter 12, where the half week of 9:27 is described as a time, times, and half a time (12:7). This general figure is also clarified in terms of 1,290 days (12:11). Roughly these same terms appear in Revelation 12.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard








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