Genesis 2:9
Footnote:
| 70 | Evil-one⇒Ruined-one "Every stroke, every letter matters" A single letter can make all the difference. The conjunction vaw (ו) here is the difference between a single tree "of good and evil" and "a good tree" and "a bad tree." Strong’s #7451, ra’, רע. The root ra’ah (#7489) means to dash to pieces, shatter. As a concrete adjective it would mean calamity, destruction, ruin. “A man [of] evil [re’a רֵעַ] to become ruined [ra’a רָעַע], and there exists he-who-loves a cleaving-one from a brother.” Proverbs 18:24 literal “…which iron crushing and shattering the whole, and like iron which ruins [ra’a רָעַע] the whole of these-ones, she causes to crush and she is ruining [ra’a רָעַע].” Daniel 2:40 literal “He is sending away in them a glowing-anger of his nostril, and an overflowing, and a frothing-at-the-mouth, and a strait, a sending of messengers of a ruined-one [ra’ רַע].” Psalm 78:49 literal Note the objectivity of “evil” in the appearance of the heifers, “And behold seven heifers following, ascending behind from out of the Nile, ruined [ra’ רע] of appearance and crushed of flesh…” Genesis 41:3 literal It contrasts not with the good but with completeness, For Myself have known the Designs whom Myself designs over you—an oracle of Yahweh—designs of completeness and not to a ruined-one [ra’ רַע], to give to you all an end and a rope [#8615].” Jeremiah 29:11 literal “The offroader, the fatherless-one, and a bound-one you are not pressing-upon, and do not pour out blood of the innocent-one in the Standing-place of This one. And behind elohim of the back-ones you are not walking to a ruined-one [ra’ רַע], to you all.” Jeremiah 7:6 literal “And he is saying toward her, ‘According to the speaking of one of the Foolish-ones you are speaking also. אֶת-the Good we are receiving from אֶת-the Elohim, and the Ruined [ra’ רַע] we are not receiving. In the whole of this one Job has not missed with his lips.” Job 2:10 literal |