I agree with your rendering of Prov. 16:14, but as we are devotees of
etymology, I would suggest this figurative portrayal of the KIPUR
PANIYN; that it means the softening or relaxing, so to speak, of a
face hardened into a look of enmity, as in Ezekiel 2:4:
קשי פנים וחזקי לב
"hard faced and stiff hearted".
Thus, this KPR is in the sense of פרך PRK (PRQ), and, the later
פכר PKR (PQR) (see also Ezra 2:57), 'soften, make brittle' and by
implication 'mitigate, appease, soothe, placate'.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Jan 3, 2013, at 2:50 AM, David Kolinsky wrote:
However, in Proverbs (Pr16:14) it means "to annul or pacify" as in
" The wrath of a king are messengers / harbingers of death, but a
wise man may pacify it."
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