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  • From: "JP van de Giessen" <vdgiessen AT solcon.nl>
  • To: Joseph Roberts <josephroberts3 AT gmail.com>,b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isa 13:22 Jackal or Crocodile
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:23:30 +0200

Joseph,

You are right, so maybe we must give a more general translation like
"monster".

Jan Pieter van de Giessen
http://www.bijbelaantekeningen.nl/blog/

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:54:45 -0700, Joseph Roberts wrote
> I think that the word would have to have a meaning understood by the
> people of that day, Whether you are a secular student of the Tanakh
> or a fervent believer in the text, I think both should reach the
> conclusion that the text was written in the everyday language of
> time period in which it was penned. So if the KJV translators
> translated it as "dragon" from their understanding of the world at
> their time, at best this would be a dynamic equivalent. I think the
> million dollar question is "What did the Hebrew speaking person from
> that era understand that word to mean when he picked up the text and
> read it." Of course maybe we can not piece together the meaning of
> the word from the available information, maybe it is just a general
> word for a group of creatures rather than a specific creature or
> species. The LXX seems to use a word for a half-donkey half-man
> called an "onocentaur." Thanks, -Joseph Roberts





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