Biblical Hebrew Forum

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Kenneth Greifer:

 

 

You wrote:  “If it says she circumcized her son and then touched his feet (symbolizing Moses coming to her) and said "because (that) a bridegroom of blood came to me" referring to the circumcision, it does not have to mean she was angry at all like most commentators say.  She [Zipporah] might have meant it in a nice way.”

 

 

If “Zipporah”/CPR -H is from MDYN, being the Hurrian state of Mitanni, and she has a Semiticized Hurrian name, then her name is based on the Hurrian common word sa-ap-ri, which means “angry”.  In my view, at Exodus 4: 25 that’s a really “angry” lady, who well lives up to the Hurrian meaning of her name.

 

 

Jim Stinehart 

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