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rakovsky, Your explanations for both spellings of "lion" in Ezekiel and Amos are just guesses. No one knows why they used two different spellings. If the word without the letter hay was less common than the other word, it would make sense to only find it once if the other form was used onl...

rakovsky, You don't have a problem with a rare word kaaru spelled with an alef (in only this one quote), but you can't accept the less common, but not rare word for lion, ari, being in a psalm because it has to be used many times to prove that it existed then. How many times should it have been used...

It is possible that the psalm writer is comparing his enemy to a lion that is threatening him, and he is also comparing himself to a lion. Lions can confront each other and fight. Maybe that could explain the two different spellings of the word "lion."

Kenneth Greifer

He never says he or his hands are like a lion (ari), since his lexicon is always to use the word aryeh for lion. rakovsky, You said the author only spells "lion" with the letter hay at the end in Psalm 22, but you think the author is David. In Psalm 7:2, 17:12, and Psalm 22 the word "...

He never says he or his hands are like a lion (ari), since his lexicon is always to use the word aryeh for lion. rakovsky, You said the author only spells "lion" with the letter hay at the end in Psalm 22, but you think the author is David. In Psalm 7:2, 17:12, and Psalm 22 the word "...

I have alternative translations for a few more quotes in Psalm 22. Psalm 22:2-3 says that the psalm writer called on G-d for help, but G-d did not answer. In the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 "The Holy Scriptures", Psalm 22:21-22 says "Deliver my soul from the sword, Mine only one...

rakovsky, Reading your posting made me realize that I had accidentally said that he counted his hands, feet, and bones in the next to last paragraph of my original posting, but I meant to say he counted his hands and feet and that his bones were seen by his enemies like I said in my alternative tran...

Psalm 22:17-18 is usually translated as "because dogs have surrounded me, companies of evildoers have surrounded me, like a lion my hands and my feet, I will count all of my bones..." I have an alternative explanation for Psalm 22 that might make poetic sense. In Psalm 22:7, the writer say...

I was just thinking more about the idea of the plants being made after the man in Genesis 2. Why would God water the ground first and then create the plants after the man? Wouldn't you make the plants and seeds first and then water the ground? I guess you could make the ground wet first, and then ma...

I didn't know that some people think that Genesis 2 says that the plants and trees were created after the man was. Genesis 2:5-6 says that there were no plants because it didn't rain on the earth yet, then it says a mist went up and watered the earth. This takes place before the man was created in G...