... Word meanings exist in the minds of living people and not in
lexicons!
... Translators of
literal translations try to use one English word per Hebrew word, and
therefore they force upon the readers English connotations and nuances that
are connected with the English words but were absent from Hebrew. ...
...
As for (WLM, I see two possible choices in English that can convey the core
of the concept, namely "concealed time" and "time indefinite". On the basis of my arguments above I would
prefer the latter. To disagree with this choice is your privilege, but it is
unfair to criticize literal translations on the basis of the methods and
goals of idiomatic translations (i.e., smooth renderings where the meaning
of the source language is rendered with good idiomatic expressions in the
target language). ...
...Now you seem to be trying to reinterpret (WLM to mean "for an uncertain time". But that is not what it means, it means "for ever", or at least "for life" i.e. there will be no end to this person's slavery.
NWT has the following rendering in Deuteronomy 15:17, ... The reference of
(WLM
in the case of the freed slave could be one hour, one day, or forty years,
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