>> I cannot find any demonstrable instance in the Tanakh of zara( taking a
masculine noun or pronoun as its subject and meaning "to impregnate." Can
someone point me to attestations that I have overlooked?
HH: What follows is not the Tanakh, and the
grammar of the passage is debated (the KJV
thought that Sarah conceived seed), but the best
interpretation of Heb 11:11 follows the path of
the NIV:
Dear Harold, I can't see how Heb 11:11 illuminates the semantic range of ZR(
in the Torah. It may shed some light on 1st-century CE thinking about
insemination, but those concepts don't determine the semantics of ZR( in the
Torah.
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