Re: A Liquid Excretion Product

From: Jack Kilmon (jkilmon@historian.net)
Date: Mon Sep 07 1998 - 15:43:05 EDT


Cindy Smith wrote:
>
> Not to be impolite: I'm curious about the KJV's use of the term
> "piss" or "pisseth against the wall" in the following passages (I
> can't transliterate the Hebrew but can give the Septuagint):

The Hebrew term hbqr m$tyn bqyr "Any that pisses against the wall"
as in 1Sam 25:22, 34 refers to all the male heirs. To kill
"all that pisses against the wall" of an enemy was to destroy
that enemy forever.

Jack

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