Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>]

At 05:01 PM 9/28/2006, you wrote:
> Dear Moshe,
> > Harold, none of the variants can correctly translated as 'pierced.'
> > The word in Hebrew and Greek means to dig (as in digging a hole).
> HH: A nail would dig a hole in your hands and
> feet, but "pierced" is more idiomatic English. The
> Old Greek translation of the Tanakh has the verb
> ORUSSW here (LXX Ps. 21:17), which means dig. It
> also has it at Ps 40:6, of God digging, or
> opening, the ear in creating a human being. So
> while the literal translation would be dig, the
> concept in English might be rendered as pierced.


Harold, words mean something. KRU cannot be distorted to mean 
pierced, when it means to dig (a hole). A truck is not a wheelbarrow 
even though both have four wheels.

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