It occurs to me that in Ps. 22:17
כי סבבוני כלבים עדת מרעים הקיפוני כארי ידי ורגלי
the ארי ARIY is here a variant of אור UR, 'fire, fire pit, brazier', which I suspect is also embedded in the אריאל ARIY-EL of Ezekiel 43:15.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
The ארי ARIY of Ps. 22:17 is fire?
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kwrandolph
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Re: The ארי ARIY of Ps. 22:17 is fire?
Nope.
Context indicates that we should expect a verb at that spot.
Ancient translations indicate that that was a verb.
The verb כאר is found also in cognate languages and Amos 8:8, with the meaning of distortion.
DSS (Nahal Heber) has כארו which is a third person plural verb.
Conclusion: כארי is a copyist error that wasn’t caught, but copied.
Karl W. Randolph.
Context indicates that we should expect a verb at that spot.
Ancient translations indicate that that was a verb.
The verb כאר is found also in cognate languages and Amos 8:8, with the meaning of distortion.
DSS (Nahal Heber) has כארו which is a third person plural verb.
Conclusion: כארי is a copyist error that wasn’t caught, but copied.
Karl W. Randolph.
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Isaac Fried
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Re: The ארי ARIY of Ps. 22:17 is fire?
The post biblical act כער KAAR (related to קער), 'pit, chip', gave rise to מכוער M-KOAR, 'ugly, marred, disfigured.'
Isaac Fried, Boston University
Isaac Fried, Boston University