Genesis 38:24
And he is as from three new-ones, and he is being fronted to Cast, to say, `Palm-Tree, your kallah has harloted, and also, behold a pregnant-one to harloting-ones.`1204 And Cast is saying, `Cause her to go out, and she is being burned.`
Footnote:
| 1204 | Whoring Ones Strong’s #2183, zenunim. Whoring ones, harloting ones. Brown-Driver-Briggs, Gesenius, etc. have supposed that this masculine plural noun was a “plural abstract intensive”. In other words it has always been interpreted as “whore-ish” (Hosea 2:6, 4:12, etc). Ancient Hebrew was not an abstract language however, but a concrete, primitive language. The Hebrew provides no syntax of any sort to indicate an abstract “-ish” as in whorish or “-doms” as in whoredoms. Yet this assumption that it was an abstract word has prevailed through the ages. |