Timeline for Is "the bread is in effect common" (1 Samuel 21:5) as translated by the NKJV accurate?
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| Dec 20, 2019 at 10:55 | comment | added | Efra | "וְאַ֕ף כִּ֥י הַיּ֖וֹם יִקְדַּ֥שׁ בַּכֶּֽלִי"- even though it was consecrated in the vessel this day. This is supposed to answer or I didn't anderstand your question. The expression "in effect common" as a translation to "דרך חול" in my opinion is not precise. As a hebrew speaker I would have translated it "the bread is like/ considered as common" | |
| Dec 20, 2019 at 0:48 | comment | added | bach | of course in normal circumstances it would be sacred, but in this specific scenario it didn't become, and that was really my question! If I would know the meaning of this ambiguous text then I wouldn't be asking about it here. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | Efra | Regarding your first question: I actually didn't take it from the text but from the Talmud (Gemara Kodashim). Maybe I didn't have to bring this interpretation. And about the second: all the interpretation I saw refer to the bread as the show bread. And it's known that the show bread is sacred. | |
| Dec 19, 2019 at 14:48 | comment | added | bach | Where does the text indicate that David was dangerously hungry? Secondly, you are forcing an interpretation upon "the bread in in effect common", which clearly implies that the bread was never sacred, not that it wasn't considered as such. I find your interpretation (or Rashi's) wanting. | |
| Nov 18, 2019 at 21:33 | history | answered | Efra | CC BY-SA 4.0 |