On the other hand, it is true that Moses took an old and familiar name and deepened and enriched its meaning from his own experience with God at the burning bush, at the Red Sea, and on Mt. Sinai—and in doing so he became the founder of Heb. religion. Because “Yahweh” was a ...
Exodus 18:18tnThe verb means “to fall and fade” as a leaf (Ps 1:3). InPs 18:45it is used figuratively of foes fading away, failing in strength and courage (S. R. Driver,Exodus, 166). Here the infinitive absolute construction heightens the meaning. ...
Well, it's a fanciful supposition that the human condition embraces something genetic that makes us want — as we say in English vernacular — to get our knickers in a twist. What I'm really meaning by "zealot" is not a Biblical reference or a reference to Christian zea...
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Another possiblility is to relate the name to the root גָּרַשׁ (garash), perhaps meaning “outcast” (from I גרשׁ) or “churning” (from II גרשׁ). Exodus 18:3 tn Heb“he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for ...
Another possiblility is to relate the name to the root גָּרַשׁ (garash), perhaps meaning “outcast” (from I גרשׁ) or “churning” (from II גרשׁ). Exodus 18:3 tn Heb“he”; the referent (Moses) has been specified in the translation for ...
Exodus 18:22 tn The form is the perfect tense with the vav (ו) consecutive, making it equivalent to the imperfect of instruction in the preceding verse. Exodus 18:22 tn Heb“in every time,” meaning “in all normal cases” or “under normal circumstances.” The same phrase occurs in...
Exodus 18 Living Bible 18 Word soon reached Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, the priest of Midian, about all the wonderful things God had done for his people and for Moses, and how the Lord had brought them out of Egypt. 2 Then Jethro took Moses’ wife, Zipporah, to him (for he ...
2Then Jethro took Moses’ wife, Zipporah, to him (for he had sent her home),3along with Moses’ two sons, Gershom (meaning “foreigner,” for Moses said when he was born, “I have been wandering in a foreign land”)4and Eliezer (meaning “God is my help,” for Moses said at hi...