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- Title: Donkey Domain: Zechariah 9:9 and Lexical Semantics (Critical Essay)
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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Zechariah 9:9 is a well-known prophetic text that recalls Jacob's blessing to Judah in Gen 49:11. (1) It is also quoted in two of the NT Gospels as finding its messianic fulfillment in Jesus' triumphal entry to Jerusalem (see Matt 21:5; John 12:15; cf. Mark 11:1-8; Luke 19:28-36). (2) Additionally, this text employs an unusual clustering of donkey terms, each of them having a unique semantic range. These terms are part of a lexical field that has not been the subject of analysis in any previous publication to date. Such neglect most likely explains why the semantic nuances of Zech 9:9 are often missed or even distorted in the English biblical translations. In order properly to understand and translate Zech 9:9, one must examine the whole lexical field for terms referring to donkeys. Biblical Hebrew employs three terms for the domestic donkey (Equus asinus)--[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (hamor), and all of these occur in Zech 9:9. The donkey hybrid, however, is expressed in the Bible by only one term--[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (pered/pirda). The most frequent of these lexemes is [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (96x); after that follows [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (34x), [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (18x) and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII](8x). (3) The two biblical terms for the onager or wild/half ass ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [arod] and [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] [pere)]) are not treated in the present study since they designate a distinct species of equid (i.e., Equus hemionus). (4)
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