Monday, February 07, 2022

Numbers 11:34 and "Selfish Craving"

ESV: "Therefore the name of that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had the craving."

NWT renders the Hebrew as "selfish craving."

The Hebrew word is
avah.

BDB:
Numbers 11:34 — desire, long for, lust after, of bodily appetites; for dainty food Numbers 11:4 (E; followed by accusative of cognate meaning) = Psalm 106:14; Numbers 11:34 (E)

Gesenius:
(2) in a bad sense, lust, desire (Luft, Gelüft). Numbers 11:4, הִתְאַוּוּ תַּאֲוָה “they lusted a lust.” Psal. 78:29, 30 Psalms 78:30. קִבְרוֹת הַתַּאֲוָה the graves of lust, Numbers 11:34, 35 Numbers 11:35.

Jacob Milgrom (Commentary on Numbers): 


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