Hebrew Bible clause type search

 If you wish to look at all the nominal clauses or all the yiqtol clauses with a fronted constituent in a Hebrew Bible chapter, this webpage is a free method to do so.

https://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk/

Click "Text and Exercises"→ "Display Text". On the left column, click "Clause", then check "Separate lines" and "Type." 

Was the Proverbs 31 woman workaholic?

 

“She did not necessarily have ongoing concurrent businesses in real estate, farming, tanning, and textiles. But over the years she has done such things. The behaviors are typical, not constant and simultaneous. We are reading about a lifetime achievement recognition, not her daily planner. The shift away from present-tense translation removes possible overtones of workaholism and adds the quality of persevering faithfulness.” (p.271)

棚子、雲柱、火柱有甚麼關係？

很美的畫面，有沒有畫家畫過呢？ 「到那日，……耶和華會在……錫安的各個聚會之上，日間造雲和煙，夜間造煌煌烈焰；的確，在每個榮耀者之上會有蔭庇，有一個棚子，日間讓人遮蔭抵禦炎熱，也作避難所和藏身處，讓人躲避狂風暴雨。」（以賽亞書4:2-6，《環球聖經譯本》） 

不久前的住棚節期間，聽到一個問題和答案，並非關於這段以賽亞書經文，而關於摩西五經裡叫以色列人住棚的吩咐。那條問題是，以色列人在曠野住的是帳幕，帳幕是毛氈做的，棚子是枝葉搭的，兩者不同，為甚麼說以色列人在曠野曾經住棚子？ 

聖經裡的nebel是怎樣的樂器？是「瑟」嗎？

「The nebel…comes from a Hebrew root meaning “skin-bottle” or “jar”; it has a waterskin-shaped sound box.」(Philip J. King and Lawrence E. Stager, Life in Biblical Israel [Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001], 292.)

Othmar Keel, The Symbolism of the Biblical World: Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms (Timothy J. Hallett trans.; New York, Seabury Press, 1978), 349：「The obvious suggestion is that nēbel denoted this curved type of lyre.」See picture 233 on p.169. 

See the coins of the Jewish revolt against Roman domination (A.D. 132-36). 在這兩個錢幣上可以清楚看見kinnor和nebel形狀的分別，也看得見nebel的形狀像瓶子。

試譯作......

「磐石」可能是石山

在希臘旅行，車駛近哥林多的時候，導遊說：「Look at this rock.」一座巍峨的石山屹立在哥林多城旁邊。這個景色很好地說明了聖經裡說上帝是Rock是甚麼意思（如申命記32:4）。

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament Partial Online View

The fifteen-volume Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament is a recommended set of reference books for looking up the background, meaning and usage of Old Testament Hebrew words.
When one cannot go to a library immediately, the partial preview on Google Books can prove helpful.

I have not made this link table for the sake of putting it up on the blog. Rather, I made it for my own use, but as a by-product I can share the convenience here as well.

Recently I found that on Amazon's preview, not many pages of this set can be seen. Rather, Google Books share more pages. So, below are two sets of links.

Here are the links to all fifteen volumes with the range of words in each volume.

Google Books:

TDOT 1 אב-בדד

TDOT 2 בדל-גלה

TDOT 3 גלולים - הרס

Encyclopedia of the World of the Bible

Have you ever tried to locate a copy of a volume of the great Hebrew set Encyclopedia of the World of the Bible but got confused about how the libraries represent them in their online catalogs?  Some weeks ago I sorted out my confusion about this. Here are my findings.

1. This set is written in Hebrew, although people have given it an English title Encyclopedia of the World of the Bible. I have not seen any English translation of this set. I have not seen this English title in the volumes of this set itself. So perhaps this is not an official title. The real name of this set is...

2. The set has two names! Actually there is one older and one newer version. Respectively, they are:

אנציקלופדיה עולם התנ''ך Entsiḳlopedyah ʻOlam ha-Tanakh. Tel-Aviv: Revivim, 1982-

עולם התנ''ך ʻOlam ha-Tanakh. Tel-Aviv : Daṿidzon-ʻIti, 1993-

Left: Older. Right: Newer.