Exodus 1
…His scheme is a dark pun on the wisdom-vocabulary: "come, let us outwit them" — nitchakkmah, "let us be wise…
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Genesis 16
…Israel will one day be heard in the identical vocabulary: "I have seen the affliction of my people… and have…
Amos 1
…Amos as a barefoot peasant is a picture the vocabulary does not require. The shelf is split, and one version…
Leviticus 17
…This chapter is the Torah legislating its own vocabulary. Trefah meaning — the ancient root of kosher's ‘treif’ Hunted game…
Proverbs 1
…Verses 2–6 are one long sentence of purpose, and they lay out the book's whole vocabulary — and Hebrew…
Numbers 30
…echo as such), because the whole chapter’s legal vocabulary turns on this one root doing double duty as both…
Genesis 12
…The vocabulary of the curse is conscripted into the blessing. (The Hebrew verb form can also be read reflexively — "will…
Jeremiah 19
…history from this chapter’s altars to Jesus’ own vocabulary, is gathered under Topheth. Verses 4–6 · וְלֹא…
Daniel 1
…Royal seed, nobles, "youths in whom was no blemish" (KJV "children in whom was no blemish" — the vocabulary of sacrificial…
Numbers 34
…This is the vocabulary of the goral, the lot: a marked token is thrown and it FALLS on someone, and…
