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Re: Bhoys: Genesis 19:4

Posted by NFiH on 2013-April-17 12:04:28 EDT, Wednesday
In reply to Bhoys: Genesis 19:4 posted by Dante on 2013-April-11 17:28:19 EDT, Thursday

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It's a bit more complicated than you think; it helps to have a copy of the BHS ⚠️ ↗ at hand and to consult the HAL ⚠️ ↗.

The Hebrew word in question, נער, can mean both "(prepubescent) boy" (as in Genesis 22.12, for example) and "young man" (as here).

Btw, the "men of Sodom" part is a gloss that has crept into the text some time before the earliest textual witnesses (the Septuagint), and should be ignored by good translators.



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NFiH

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