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The Septuagint translates
by
(“make bitter; make angry;
provoke; be rebellious”) and by
(“to reject; not to recognize”). The English
versions give the meanings “rebel; provoke” (
KJV
,
RSV
,
NIV
).
B. Nouns.
(
, 4805), “rebellion.” This word occurs infrequently: “For I know thy
rebellion, and thy stiff neck …” (Deut. 31:27; cf. Prov. 17:11).
The noun
means “double rebellion.” This reference to Babylon (Jer.
50:21) is generally not translated (
KJV
,
RSV
, and
NIV
, “Merathaim”).
C. Adjective.
(
, 4805), “rebellious.” This word occurs 23 times, mainly in Ezekiel. The
word modifies “house” (referring to Israel) in Ezek. 2:8: “… Be not thou rebellious like
that rebellious house.…”
TO RECKON
A. Verb.
(
*
, 3187), “to reckon (according to race or family).” In Aramaic,
appears in the Targumim for the Hebrew
(“family”) and
(“genealogy
or generations”). This word occurs about 20 times in the Old Testament.
In 1 Chron. 5:17
means “reckoned by genealogies”: “All these were reckoned
by genealogies in the days of Jothan King of Judah …” (cf. 1 Chron. 7:5). A similar use
is found in Ezra 2:62: “These sought their register among those that were reckoned by
genealogy, but they were not found …” (
NASB
, “searched among their ancestral
registration”).
The Septuagint renders
variously:
(“genealogy … to be
reckoned”);
(“member of them; father their genealogy”);
@
(“member
throughout the genealogy”);
$
(“reckoned by genealogy”).
B. Noun.
(
*
, 3188), “genealogy.” This word appears in the infinitive form as a noun
to indicate a register or table of genealogy: “And the number throughout the genealogy of
them that were apt to the war, and to battle was twenty and six thousand men” (1 Chron.
7:40; cf. 2 Chron. 31:18). Another rendering concerning the acts of Rehoboam, recorded
in the histories of Shemaiah (2 Chron. 12:15), meant that the particulars were related in a
genealogical table.
TO RECOMPENSE, REWARD
(
, 7999), “to recompense, reward, be whole, be complete, sound.” A
common Semitic term, this verb is found in ancient Akkadian and Ugaritic and in all
periods of Hebrew. The root is familiar to most people in the word
, which is the
common Jewish greeting. The verb
occurs just over 100 times in the Hebrew
Bible.
In its first occurrence in the Old Testament, the word has the sense of “repaying” or
“restoring”: “Why have you returned evil for good?” (Gen. 44:4,
RSV
). Sometimes it