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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

The Hebrew word is a hapex legomenon, and while it does have a reasonable number of other words with which it shares a common root, I wouldn’t take it to the bank. It is quite possible that it refers to a writing that would identify one as the property of a particular person or deity.


48 posted on 09/08/2014 12:44:53 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

It seems to clear to me.


49 posted on 09/08/2014 12:45:34 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Hieronymus
The Hebrew word is a hapex legomenon, and while it does have a reasonable number of other words with which it shares a common root, I wouldn’t take it to the bank. It is quite possible that it refers to a writing that would identify one as the property of a particular person or deity.

I presume that you are implying that the word for "tattoo" is a hapax legomenon in the scope of Biblical text. For those who haven't attended seminary, a "hapax legomenon" is a word which occurs only once in a literary context. This property makes it difficult to discern original meaning.

Just last month a friend and I were discussing such a word in the New Testament. He commented that "hapax legomenon" is one of those terms you learn in seminary that makes you think you were getting your money's worth.

74 posted on 09/08/2014 1:24:16 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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