... Outside of Psalm 21 (LXX, = MT, EVV Psalm 22), there is no biblically (or, as far as I know, nonbiblical) attested use of orussw to mean "to pierce," especially "to pierce" living flesh as opposed to inanimate matter. Neither is there any such attestation for Hebrew karah. ...
... Both Greek orussw and Hebrew karah I (normally) take objects that name empty spaces--wells, pits, holes, graves--_not_ the matter from which those spaces were hollowed out. (Even Ezekiel 8:8 is no exception to this ...
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