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In this chapter, we encounter a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hapax legomenon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Greek for \u201ca thing said once,\u201d a term that designates a word that appears only once in a specific context\u2014in our case, the Tanakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLawlessness has grown into a rod of wickedness. Nothing comes of them, nor of their abundance, nor of their wealth; nor is there preeminence (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no\u2019ah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) among them\u201d (v. 11). Since the word <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">no\u2019ah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not appear anywhere else in Tanakh, how can we know what it means? Methodologically, there are two approaches that can be taken. The first attempts to define the word based on its similarity to other known words. The second infers its definition from its use in the context in which it appears. Let us begin with the medieval exegetes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All took it as a form of the verb N-H-H, and still arrived at different interpretations. Rashi and Kara interpreted it to mean \u201cnone of them follows after me,\u201d while Eliezer of Beaugency, along with Radak, understood it as \u201cthey will not lament,\u201d which is also the King James version: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">neither shall there be wailing for them.\u201d Malbim, not to be outdone, offered both possibilities. The concluding phrase in the JPS translation used here, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nor is there preeminence among them\u201d, comes from their <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prophets<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Philadelphia, 1978), which notes: \u201cMeaning of Hebrew uncertain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hapax notwithstanding, the reference to \u201cthe rod of wickedness\u201d continues the ambiguity inherent in the previous verse that cited the budding of \u201cthe rod of arrogance\u201d without specifying whether its subject is Israel or its enemy, Babylon. As Moshe Greenberg wrote in his commentary on Ezekiel for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Anchor Bible<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cAt any rate, the sense is the time is ripe for punishment. The rest of the verse is obscure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenberg also noted:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Language and ideas characteristic of Ezekiel are combined in our chapter with an unusually rich array of poetic elements echoing passages from elsewhere in the Bible\u2026 As in the few other instances in which Ezekiel demonstrated his poetic range (e.g., chs. 21; 28:11-19), the modern interpreter encounters insuperable difficulties in following him (163).<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":73271,"id":73271,"title":"ez7-unicorn","filename":"ez7-unicorn.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/ez7-unicorn.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/dealing-with-a-hapax\/ez7-unicorn\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ez7-unicorn","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":73270,"date":"2020-04-13 09:15:45","modified":"2022-02-12 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