Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jonathan Mohler <jonathan.mohler AT gmail.com>]

I thought I might throw in this quote from the NetBible notes regarding Egypt in the same sentence.

⁴⁸ sn From Egypt. Because Que is also mentioned, some prefer to see in vv. 28-29 a reference to Mutsur. Que and Mutsur were located in Cilicia/Cappadocia (in modern southern Turkey). See HALOT 625 s.v. מִצְרַיִם.

(https://net.bible.org/#!bible/1+Kings+10:14)

Jonathan Mohler

Oh...that was an eye opener, I read a couple of other translations and the King James is the only one to say linen yarn.  Mmm, I wonder how on earth those 17th century geniuses arrived at that then?  Thankyou Michael.

Chris Watts
Ireland



On 29 Jun 2013, at 22:56, Michael Abernathy wrote:

Chris,
They look alike but I think what you are looking at are actually three words.
1 Kings 10:28  has the conjunction ו , the preposition מן , and the name of a cityְ קוה ְ translated variously as Keveh or Kue. I don't know where they got linen from.
Jeremiah 3:17 is obviously a verb form of the word for gather. And Genesis 1:10,  מקוה ,  is a word meaning a gathering place or a pool.
Sincerely,
Michael Abernathy