Genesis 1:16
And elohim is making אֶת-two Great Light-Places,31 אֶת-the Great Light-place for a ruling-place of the Hot-one, and אֶת-the Young Light-Place32 for a ruling-place33 of the Night-hers, and the Circular-ones.34
| 32 | Hebrew הַקָּטֹן֙, ha-qaton. Strong’s #6996. From the root qatan (#6994, 6962), to cut short, cut off, abridge, crop, pare. Cf. Gesenius and Fuerst. Interpreted as “young” or “small”. Hence the “little finger” in 1 Kin. 12:10 is properly the small finger and likely means the thumb. This noun is mostly used of younger or youngest builders [sons] and built-ones [daughters], i.e. “We have a small [qaton] sister…” Song of Solomon 8:8. This is not the normal word for “small/little”, but speaks of something cut short. “But you are not thus, yet the greater-one in you -- become as the younger-one; and the one leading, as the one serving.” Luke 22:26 RBT |