Genesis 15:2
וַ יֹּאמֶר אַבְרָם אֲדֹנָי יֶהוִה מַה תִּתֶּן לִי וְ אָנֹכִי הֹולֵךְ עֲרִירִי וּ בֶן מֶשֶׁק בֵּיתִי הוּא דַּמֶּשֶׂק אֶלִיעֶזֶר
And Raised-Father is saying, `My master554 Yahweh, what do you give to-myself, and myself he-walking stripped?555 And a builder of Meshek in my house, himself is Dammeshek El-is-Help.`556
| 556 | Strong’s #461, Eliezer, el is help. The word “meshek” is a rare word only here and as a part of Dammashek, which is related to Damascus. Gesenius opines, “I judge that the sacred writer used meshek, an uncommon word, in order to allude to the word Dammeshek” Gesenius Hebrew Lexicon (1846). Meshek is sometimes interpreted as possession. |