09-13-2023, 03:11 PM
(09-13-2023, 11:38 AM)searchinmyroots Wrote: If I'm not mistaken, there are 3 different words used in each of those verses and only one translates correctly as pierced or "thrust through".
Englishman's Concordance
kā·’ă·rî — 1 Occurrence
Psalm 22:16
HEB: מְ֭רֵעִים הִקִּיפ֑וּנִי כָּ֝אֲרִ֗י יָדַ֥י וְרַגְלָֽי׃
KJV: have inclosed me: they pierced my hands
INT: of evildoers has encompassed dig my hands and my feet
The Psalms Scroll found at Qumran did not include 22:16 because the manuscript was damaged at the very place where it would have appeared.
Scraps from a scroll containing some of the Psalms were discovered at Nachal Hever, and one scrap contained the line from Psalm 22:16 with the word in question well in view. Though the writing on the scrap was faint, under magnification it was easy to see and decipher. The word clearly ended in a vav and not a yod, and was therefore a 3rd person plural verb: “they dug” or “they pierced.”
Isaiah 53:5. Wounded. Interpretation, pierced.
Zechariah 12:10. Stabbed. Interpretation, pierced.