A Hebrew Cognate of Unuu/ʾun? in Is.33: 8
Is. 33:8 is a difficult verse standing in a difficult context, but recent lines of evidence converge to make the meaning of this verse clear, and to show that we have here another instance of a newly identified Hebrew word. As it stands in the Masoretic Text, the verse reads: nāammû mesillôt ābat...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1971]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1971, Volume: 64, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 257-259 |
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| Summary: | Is. 33:8 is a difficult verse standing in a difficult context, but recent lines of evidence converge to make the meaning of this verse clear, and to show that we have here another instance of a newly identified Hebrew word. As it stands in the Masoretic Text, the verse reads: nāammû mesillôt ābat ober' oraḥ heper berît mā'as ārîmlo' ḥāab'nô. A literal rendering will serve to make the difficulties clear: Highways are desolate. No traveller passes by. He has broken the covenant, rejected the cities. He has not regarded man. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816000032521 |