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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalm 22:16 - daqar as pierced ?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:48 -0400

At 02:11 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
Vadim Cherny wrote:
> dkr in Zech12:10 undoubtedly refers to thrusting with sword. Always took
> that for granted. The nations that cut him [Israel] (came against Jerusalem)
> will repent.
> I'm less familiar with the Christian issues, but I frankly don't see how you
> could read ca-ari in Ps22:17 as "pierced."
> As a lion [they have encompassed (transposition from the earlier phrase)] my
> hands and feet.
HH: There are variant textual readings, and it is
those variants that people are reading as "pierced."


Harold, none of the variants can correctly translated as 'pierced.' The word in Hebrew and Greek means to dig (as in digging a hole).

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