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Genesis 4:15

And Yahweh is saying to-himself, to the upright one, `The whole has slain Spearhead, dual seven he is standing up.`180 And Yahweh is placing for Spearhead a sign to except the smiting of אֶת-him the whole of him-who-finds him.

Footnote:

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Hebrew יקם was taken for the root נקם to avenge, take vengeance (#5358) as a “causative-passive Hophal form". Quite a bit of crafty work has been done on what is otherwise a simple Qal verb to stand (#6965) in the third person masculine incomplete: he is standing up. In fact, the same verb was just used in in verse 8: "and Cain stood up [יקם] in the field"