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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalm 22:16 - daqar as pierced ?
  • Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:20:42 -0500

K Randolph wrote:

Why all this effort to support the LXX reading?

HH: It is also the Vulgate reading, which Jerome did from the Hebrew. And the Syriac reading apparently agrees with the LXX. And there are Hebrew variants that do, one as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls.


After all, was not LXX written because people were forgetting Biblical
Hebrew? This was not only true among the Greek speaking diaspora, but
also among the Aramaic speaking Jews of Babylon and Judea / Galilee.
Thus it is understandable that when the translators reached Psalm
22:17, seeing a word that they did not recognize, tried to say that it
was KRH with an added aleph. But there is a root K)R that is extant
not only here, but also in Akkadian and in Amos 8:8, so why not go
with it?


HH: In Amos 8:8 it is apparently a defective form for KY)R, as its parallel with KY)WR MRYM in the next colon demonstrates, as well as the repetition of the same phrase in 9:5.


By the way, KRH in Biblical Hebrew did not mean "to dig", rather "to
provide (for)" which was often used, particularly in Genesis, in the
context of providing wells for watering sheep when out in the
pastures. True, digging was the means by which wells were provided,
but the word is "provide".

HH: Check your lexicons.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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