'With a strong hand and an outstretched arm' the meaning of the expression byd hzqh wbzrw' ntwyh
| Autor: | Karen Martens |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament. 15:123-141 |
| ISSN: | 1502-7244 0901-8328 |
| Popis: | The expression ''with a strong hand and an outstretched arm'' is usually understood as being an expression of the power of God. There are various suggestions as to which aspect of his power is indicated: The power of inflicting plague and sickness or his power as a warrior - or whether the expression is used as a counterpart to Egyptian royal terminology. It is suggested here that the expression does refer to the power of inflicting plague and sickness, for the following reasons: ''With a strong hand and an outstretched arm'' is a parallelism between two collocations of words, ''strong hand'' and ''outstretched hand'' (''arm'' + the verb ''stretch out''). When the two collocations, both containing the word ''hand'', were made to form a parallelism, the element ''arm'' was the added to one of them to achieve variation between the units of the parallelism. The element ''arm'', which often has a military connotation, is then an extraneous component to the expression. The outcome of ''stretching out the hand'... |
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