Why all this effort to support the LXX reading?
After all, was not LXX written because people were forgetting Biblical
Hebrew? This was not only true among the Greek speaking diaspora, but
also among the Aramaic speaking Jews of Babylon and Judea / Galilee.
Thus it is understandable that when the translators reached Psalm
22:17, seeing a word that they did not recognize, tried to say that it
was KRH with an added aleph. But there is a root K)R that is extant
not only here, but also in Akkadian and in Amos 8:8, so why not go
with it?
By the way, KRH in Biblical Hebrew did not mean "to dig", rather "to
provide (for)" which was often used, particularly in Genesis, in the
context of providing wells for watering sheep when out in the
pastures. True, digging was the means by which wells were provided,
but the word is "provide".
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