Genesis 1:26
And elohim is saying, we are making a red-one within the shadow-phantom of ourselves,43 according to our figure,44 and they are ruling45 in a fish46 of the Sea, and in a flying-one of the Dual-Heavenly-ones, and in the behemah, and in the whole of the Earth, and in the whole of the Gliding-one the Gliding-one47 upon the Earth.
| 43 | The preposition for “in” (בְּ) is never used as a function of comparison anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures. That function belongs to כִּ which is used with the next word “figure”. The suffix is possessive, “our Image”. Strong’s #6754, tselem. “From an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom”. A shadow image. Cf. Gesenius. “A dark-one and a death-shadow [tsel] are redeeming him…” Job 3:5 literal “they have come in the shadow [tsel] of my beam…” Gen 19:8 literal “a man [ish] is walking himself only in a shadow-image [tselem]. They are roaring only a vapor,. He is heaping up and he is perceiving not who gathers them.” Psalm 39:6 literal |