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Re: [b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ)

From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: Zalman Romanoff <flintflintflintflint AT gmail.com>
Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ)
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:47:59 -0700

I don’t know about to you, but to me this looks like an act of mercy.

If a slave-owner takes a female slave, and uses her sexually, he is to take care of her as if she were a wife, not just use her and throw her away. Because in using her, he is ruining her marriage prospects (making her a reproach to a man) and making it more difficult for her to thrive in society.

NXRPT נחרפת is a passive participle, something done to her, because she was not free to refuse.

Now that I’ve stuck my neck out, does someone have a better answer?

Karl W. Randolph.

2013/4/19 Zalman Romanoff <flintflintflintflint AT gmail.com>

ויקרא יט - כ: ואיש כי-ישכב את-אשה שכבת-זרע, והוא שפחה נחרפת לאיש, והפדה לא נפדתה, או חפשה לא נתן-לה--בקרת תהיה לא יומתו, כי-לא חפשה

".אפילו רש"י אומר "איני יודע לו דמיון במקרא ?(neḥĕrep̄eṯ) "מה זה "נחרפת

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[b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ), Zalman Romanoff, 04/19/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ), K Randolph, 04/20/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ), Yigal Levin, 04/20/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] נחרפת (neḥĕrep̄eṯ), Isaac Fried, 04/22/2013