Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Hedrick Gary <GaryH AT cjfm.org>]

Karl, as always, you bring up some insightful points—and I agree with you 
that some aspects of this are puzzling.

But your original question was, Does the "consecrated one" die?

In this instance, I think the answer is yes.

Gary Hedrick
San Antonio, Texas USA

On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:01 PM, K Randolph wrote:

> Gary:
> 
> I have been thinking of this question on and off for a few days…
> 
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hedrick Gary <GaryH AT cjfm.org> wrote:
> In a word, yes.
> 
> חרם is the key term here in 27:29, Karl, as it relates to your inquiry.
> 
> Yes, it is. The question here, what exactly does it mean and what does it 
> refer to?
> 
> As a verb, I understand its meaning to be “to identify a person or object 
> such that he is designated for special attention, e.g. consecrated to the 
> Lord such that one can no longer make use of it for himself, sentenced to 
> destruction or condemned to death ⇒ (physically) to (indicate by a) mark, 
> as in to blemish, make imperfect”
> 
> There are two recognized derivatives, “marked ⇒ designated object or person 
> to be consecrated or condemned to destruction” and “marked such that 
> blemished, disfigured, has imperfection”.

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