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The Meaning of in Judges viii, 14

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Extract

The correct interpretation of has presented a problem so far not satisfactorily solved. Acting on the a priori assumption that in the time of Gideon writing could hardly have been so generally diffused that a mere lad caught casually would write down the names of the chiefs of Sukkoth, the Revised Version renders, somewhat disingenuously, “and he [the lad] described for him [Gideon] the princes of Sukkoth, etc.” Realizing, however, that such a translation was quite indefensible lexicographically, it safeguarded itself by adding in the margin, “Or, wrote down.”

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1948

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References

1 A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Judges, Edinburgh, 1908, p. 224Google Scholar.

2 The Book of Judges, London, 1918, p. 232Google Scholar.

3 See p. 460.

4 See Driver, G. R., Notes on the Hebrew Text of . . . Samuel, Oxford, 1913, p. 132Google Scholar.

5 Sometimes this cognate participle is actually found, as in Is. xvi, 10—yidhrōkh had-dōrēkh.