I agree with your rendering of Prov. 16:14, but as we are devotees of etymology, I would suggest this figurative portrayal of the KIPUR PANIYN; that it means the softening or relaxing, so to speak, of a face hardened into a look of enmity, as in Ezekiel 2:4: קשי פנים וחזקי לב "hard faced and stiff hearted". Thus, this KPR is in the sense of פרך PRK (PRQ), and, the later פכר PKR (PQR) (see also Ezra 2:57), 'soften, make brittle' and by implication 'mitigate, appease, soothe, placate'. Isaac Fried, Boston University On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:50 AM, David Kolinsky wrote: However, in Proverbs (Pr16:14) it means "to annul or pacify" as in " The wrath of a king are messengers / harbingers of death, but a wise man may pacify it." |
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