Biblical Hebrew Forum

[ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben Crick)]

On Wed 28 Feb 2007 (19:36:41), jbarach AT aol.com wrote:
> I suppose the general idea, however, may be that he makes himself small, 
> crumpling up his body, in order to be hidden.  But that doesn't  appear
> to be the  idea anywhere else where this word appears.
>  And toward  the end of Psalm 10, 
> the word DK appears to mean "crushed, oppressed," which  would suggest 
> (again) that the earlier appearance of the similar word DKH would  also
> likely refer  to crushing.

 John,

 I don't have access to a big lexicon now I'm retired; but I do have
 Bagster's and Strong's lexica, and Young's Analytical Concordance.

 DKH appears in the Qal only in Ps 10:10; hence the difficulty.
 Verses 8-11 describe the wicked man's crimes: as a brigand lying
 in wait to rob (8); as a lion lurking for its prey (9a); as a hunter
 snaring game in a net (9b). Compare ShaChaCh in Job 38:40. Then in
 vv 10-11 we have the wicked person himself. The metaphors are over;
 he himself is preying upon the poor, and impiously declaring that God
 will not see him.

 Or, maybe in v 10 the subject changes; the poor is now the subject,
 not the villain: "He (the poor) is crushed, he bows down and falls
 by the (villain's) thugs".

 If the Massoretes had difficulty construing Ps 10:10, need we be
 surprised that it gives us difficulty?

 The LXX has  KUYEI KAI PESEITAI EN TWi AUTON KATAKURIEUSAI TWN
 PENHTWN.
 The Vulgate has  In laqueo suo humiliabit eum inclinabit se et
 cadet cum dominatus fuerit pauperum (Psalm 9:31 in Vulgate).

 My thoughts.

 Ben
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