Versification numbering represents a relatively recent invention, alien to
the ancient textual tradition. Hence, the recent editors assign slightly
different numbers, depending on which version of the document they market.
You are correct. The verse number 17 appears in some versions.
regards,
fred burlingame
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Fred,
>
> maybe you intended to say 2Ch 2:17 in your second quotation?
>
> Pere Porta
>
> 2010/12/14 fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>> Does this little word testify to the big fact that individual words
>> possess
>> no meaning outside of actual usage?
>>
>> In Isaiah 63:3,
>>
>> פורה דרכתי לבדי ומעמים אין איש אתי ואדרכם באפי וארמסם בחמתי ויז נצחם על
>> בגדי
>> וכל מלבושי אגאלתי
>>
>> the operative word נצח becomes "grape juice," figurative of blood.
>>
>> In 2 Chronicles 2:18,
>>
>> ויעש מהם שבעים אלף סבל ושמנים אלף חצב בהר ושלשת אלפים ושש מאות מנצחים
>> להעביד
>> את העם
>>
>> the relevant word נצח changes course entirely, and becomes "ones
>> managing."
>>
>> In Lamentations 3:18,
>>
>> ואמר אבד נצחי ותוחלתי מיהוה
>>
>> the word in question נצח moves again substantially in meaning to
>> "strength."
>>
>> Returning to Isaiah, 13:20,
>>
>> לא תשב לנצח ולא תשכן עד דור ודור ולא יהל שם ערבי ורעים לא ירבצו שם
>>
>> the word reverses course yet again into a "long period of time."
>>
>> Of course, an alternate conclusion presents itself. Does the leningrad
>> codex
>> include an amalgam of different languages compiled into the form of single
>> document, via centuries of creating and editing pieces and parts of it?
>> Such
>> a conclusion would permit the use of dictionaries, whereas the original
>> conclusion would not. For if the word depends entirely on what a user
>> chooses for meaning, in his arbitrary wisdom, then until used, it has no
>> meaning at all.
>>
>> I welcome your comments.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> fred burlingame
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