Naso (Numbers 4.2, first word)
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:28 am
What is the verb form of the first word of Numbers 4.2, naso?
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Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT
USA
נָשֹׂ֗א
Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT
USA
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I have no idea what the Masoretic points stand for. Seeing as they are demonstrably wrong often enough, I tend to ignore them.cvkimball wrote:What is the verb form of the first word of Numbers 4.2, naso?
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Chris Kimball
West Redding, CT
USA
while the Graecus Venetus, using an essentially Greek construction, employs an infinitive:1 καὶ ἐλάλησε Κύριος πρὸς Μωυσῆν καὶ ᾿Ααρὼν λέγων· 2 λάβε τὸ κεφάλαιον τῶν υἱῶν Καὰθ...
Tanakh Ram not only paraphrases the idiom, but introduces a plural imperative:διαείλεκταί θ' ὁ ὀντωτς πρὸς μωσέα καὶ πρὸ ἀαρῶνα τῷ φάναι 2 ἐπαίρειν τὴν κεφαλὴν τῶν υἱέων καάθου...
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Why all the Greek?Saboi wrote:נשא את־ראש is read as ἔνεικε τα κρᾶτα "bring the heads", rather then ἀρίθμησον τα κρᾶτα "count the heads" or ἀρίθμησον τα κέρατα "count the corps".
ראש; κεράς "corps, wing of an army"
Judges 7:16 - He divided the three hundred men into three companies [ראשים][κέρατα]
Job 1:17 - The Chaldeans made out three bands [ראשים] [κέρατα]
קהת/ἀγωγά "of an army, spartan youths"
עבדת/ὀπαδός "attendant, accompanying"
cf. 1 Maccabees 12:21