summer winter and reproach scorn idea

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Galena
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summer winter and reproach scorn idea

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גַּל מֵעָלַי חֶרְפָּה וָבוּז כִּי עֵדֹתֶיךָ נָצָרְתִּי Focusing on the word חֶרְפָּה meaning reproach or scorn. From the root verb חרפָ

Dividing this into two sections:
a) Considering how the idea of autumn, the plucking, gathering of fruits leads to reproach/scorn
My only thoughts lead me to think there is a connection between the falling of leaves, the plucking from the tree, the dying, as a kind of stripping away of dignity? Hence scorn?

b) Considering that the term used in scripture to represent the whole year is וְקַיִץ וָחֹרֶף
Any ideas as to why summer and autumn are symbolic of the whole year? Seems odd. The idea that this means winter seems thin.
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Re: summer winter and reproach scorn idea

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Galena wrote:גַּל מֵעָלַי חֶרְפָּה וָבוּז כִּי עֵדֹתֶיךָ נָצָרְתִּי Focusing on the word חֶרְפָּה meaning reproach or scorn. From the root verb חרפָ
Are these words really related, or are we dealing merely with homographs? I suspect the latter.
Galena wrote:Dividing this into two sections:
a) Considering how the idea of autumn, the plucking, gathering of fruits leads to reproach/scorn
What do you know about the Mediterranean climate? Summer was the time for the gathering of fruits, the last of the harvest, fall the time of plowing and seeding so that the grain crops can take advantage of the winter rains. Thus summer and fall represent the end and beginning of the growing season.
Galena wrote:b) Considering that the term used in scripture to represent the whole year is וְקַיִץ וָחֹרֶף
Any ideas as to why summer and autumn are symbolic of the whole year? Seems odd. The idea that this means winter seems thin.
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Karl W. Randolph.
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Re: summer winter and reproach scorn idea

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thankyou for that insight, being removed from this agricultural contact it was not so obvious.
Chris Watts
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