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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Song of songs 6:9 wild guess
  • Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:15:31 +0200

Song of Songs 6:9 is usually translated as saying that she (Shulamit) is the
choice or chosen one of her mother. I was wondering if instead it could say
"for a maid is pure, she is for her childbearer." Maybe this could be like
Sarah's maid, Hagar, who had a child for her. Also, Jacob's two wives let
their maids have kids with him.

I don't really get the usual translation's meaning about her being her
mother's chosen one.
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The essentials of your reasoning is that "barah" means "clean, pure" and has nothing to do with the concept "to choose"?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)




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