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Re: [b-hebrew] וְכִפֶּר in MT (CV) Dt 32:43 Emphatic?

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: David Kolinsky <hadeesh AT sbcglobal.net>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, Philip <philipengman AT yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] וְכִפֶּר in MT (CV) Dt 32:43 Emphatic?
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 12:16:53 -0500

I agree with your rendering of Prov. 16:14, but as we are devotees of etymology, I would suggest this figurative portrayal of the KIPUR PANIYN; that it means the softening or relaxing, so to speak, of a face hardened into a look of enmity, as in Ezekiel 2:4:

קשי פנים וחזקי לב

"hard faced and stiff hearted".

Thus, this KPR is in the sense of פרך PRK (PRQ), and, the later פכר PKR (PQR) (see also Ezra 2:57), 'soften, make brittle' and by implication 'mitigate, appease, soothe, placate'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:50 AM, David Kolinsky wrote:

However, in Proverbs (Pr16:14) it means "to annul or pacify" as in " The wrath of a king are messengers / harbingers of death, but a wise man may pacify it."

Re: [b-hebrew] וְכִפֶּר in MT (CV) Dt 32:43 Emphatic?, David Kolinsky, 01/03/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] וְכִפֶּר in MT (CV) Dt 32:43 Emphatic?, Isaac Fried, 01/03/2013