When you read Tanakh for pleasure or your devotions, which language do you read it in? Which is the translation that you use? Which is your favorite? Every time you bring this up, you refer to one or more translations. Why not the Hebrew text itself?
HH: Your translation is incorrect. N&) has its
meaning of bear guilt or punishment, not "lift
up." God is not the One who is talking but the
One who is spoken to here.
For me, I have a NIV or two around the house which I havent opened in months. Somewhere there is a NKJV and another translation. I dont think there is a NASB in the house. The archaicisms in the KJV made Hebrew easier to read than it. Dont you see, I read Hebrew, not any translation? And in some of the translations below, I disagree with far more than just XBL.
My technique is derived from my experiences learning modern languages, where I learned that most lexemes have one and only one root meaning. Therefore, when I see in all its uses that a Biblical Hebrew lexeme can be understood from one root, why look for another? In the case of XBL, fewer than 10% of uses are understood by a different root, and they can be understood with the primary meaning as well.
For Song of Songs 2:15 Take hold for us foxes, little foxes MXBLYM vineyards, and our vineyard is in blossom. Every URL you referenced concerning foxes and vineyards except one say that foxes do NOT damage vineyards, vines nor grape blossoms. They damage only ripe fruit, but they can cause a lot of damage. And the vineyard in Song of Songs was in blossom. But foxes prey on mice which burrow into roots and gnaw branches. They prey on damaging birds. They prey on grasshoppers and other arthropods that eat leaves and blossoms. In other words, foxes are not totally a negative to vineyards. The one exception was the Tasmanian site which claimed that Australian foxes gnaw branches as well as fruit, but it was unclear if the foxes do so to get at the fruit. And why the take hold for us? Since foxes dont damage vineyards in blosssom, how does damage or corrupt fit here?
I agree that some of the verses could be read either way when read in Hebrew, but given the above understanding of languages, leads me to prefer one to the other.
Nehemiah 1 (6) (prayer) for your slaves Israels sons but admitting our error to you (7) we are surely tied (joined) to you but we have not guarded your commands In both verses we have the pattern Gods people, but who do not do Gods commands.
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