Karl, as always, you bring up some insightful points—and I agree with you that some aspects of this are puzzling.
But your original question was, Does the "consecrated one" die? In this instance, I think the answer is yes. Gary Hedrick San Antonio, Texas USA On Jun 15, 2011, at 1:01 PM, K Randolph wrote: > Gary: > > I have been thinking of this question on and off for a few days… > > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Hedrick Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > In a word, yes. > > חרם is the key term here in 27:29, Karl, as it relates to your inquiry. > > Yes, it is. The question here, what exactly does it mean and what does it > refer to? > > As a verb, I understand its meaning to be “to identify a person or object > such that he is designated for special attention, e.g. consecrated to the > Lord such that one can no longer make use of it for himself, sentenced to > destruction or condemned to death ⇒ (physically) to (indicate by a) mark, as > in to blemish, make imperfect” > > There are two recognized derivatives, “marked ⇒ designated object or person > to be consecrated or condemned to destruction” and “marked such that > blemished, disfigured, has imperfection”. snip, snip _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
