...More precisely, otherwise we have a hapax. How many hapaxes in the Hebrew Bible? I can give a simple answer to that: as many as 3220 lexical items (including proper names), as distinguished in the Westminster morphological database, out of a total of 9521 lexical items - although many of these do have cognates with the same root. Even of the smaller number of hapaxes which have no known cognate with the same root, how many have been confirmed as genuine rather than scribal errors from cognate languages, ancient versions etc? It is simply bad logic to argue that a hapax implies a corrupt text.
The reading is K)RW, and this has some serious difficulties with it, since the aleph makes it a poor conjugation for the verb KRH. I have always considered this another example of poor writing skills, and the correct reading should be K)RY, the last letter being an elongated yod, a very common situation in the DSS. Otherwise we have a verb without a root.
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