Hi there. I was unable to find the list of how to properly post so I hope
you will excuse my errors (if there are any). My question deal with the
text of Leviticus 20:17 and the third word laqach... (I am
not sure how to properly transliterate this yet). Does this context suggest
or imply "rape" or is it traditionally thought to mean something less
aggressive?
Proto- Semitic * lqH. has the primary sense of impregnation. Hence the
Hebrew "lqkh" does not mean to rape or to take in marriage, but simply to
impregnate. In other Semitic languages the term can also be used in the
sense of fecundating palm trees.