Timeline for The lexicology of Pharaoh's heart
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| Mar 19, 2016 at 4:37 | comment | added | enegue | Schuh, I can't make you see what you don't want to see. Your preferred view is that there is no meaningful distinction between the words, and you have shown in your comments to ScottS and myself that you will go to any lengths to deny evidence to the contrary. The table I've presented, however, speaks for itself and makes a mockery of your objections. In regard to editing the text, I'll deal with them one at a time. The 7:3 hardening is quoted in full at the beginning of my answer. Can you tell me precisely the text that is missing in the table entry? | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | Schuh | Putting it another way, your proposed defining features are not defining – they’re not distinctive, they apply to all 3 verbs. For example, yes, hzq “is used when Pharaoh's heart is hardened by means of wonders and miracles” as you say, but the other verbs are also used this way. Unfortunately, the ellipses (...) in your chart delete the ‘miracles’ from 7:3 (qsh) and 10:1 (kdb). Why is that? As mentioned, your first defining feature for kdb is similarly not unique. | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 20:36 | comment | added | enegue | @Schuh What a lot of rubbish. Of course, all three declare the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, but the words are CLEARLY being used as I've indicated. Anyone with an inkling of discernment can see that chazaq appears at every wonder/miracle except the flies, where kabed was used because the author probably considered Pharaoh's capricious behaviour more the cause. Yes, he could have used bot as he did with the hail, but authors aren't robots. Can you indicate where I have edited the text? | |
| Mar 18, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | Schuh | What you’ve gained in succinctness (+1) you’ve lost in accuracy. You define kbd (in part) as “declaring the simple fact of Pharaoh's hardened heart,” but all three verbs do this (e.g. 7:13,22; 9:35 / 7:14; 9:7 / 13:15). You define hzq as hardening “by means of wonders and miracles,” but again, all three verbs do this (e.g. 7:3, 10:1, 11:10). It seems you’ve edited the texts in your chart to make the verses fit your proposed pattern. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 20:23 | comment | added | enegue | Yes. Based on the KJV text alone, I have argued in various forums over the years that the tools God used to harden Pharaoh's heart were signs and wonders, and his pride. Having had the three Hebrew expressions for hardening identified by the OP, and the table he included listing the occurrences, made it a relatively easy job to put my table together. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 15:18 | comment | added | C. Kelly | This is quite a helpful and concise contribution. Did you make the table? If not, you should provide attribution/acknowledgment to whoever did. | |
| Mar 17, 2016 at 5:14 | history | answered | enegue | CC BY-SA 3.0 |