Genesis 34:29
| 1079 | Tripping One Strong’s #2945, taph. Tripping one. Singular noun. Typically interpreted as “little ones” meaning “children”. Brown-Driver-Briggs notes “collective children (as going with quick, tripping steps). Derived from the root taphaph (#2952), to mince, trip with steps which is only used once here, “And Yahweh is saying for because the built-ones of Zion have been lofty, and are walking those-stretching-out the neck, and those-ogling the eyes [seducing with the eyes], walking and tripping they are walking, and in their feet they are fettering [acas].” Isaiah 3:16 literal The context of “tripping” is interesting in this Isaiah passage as it was assumed that acas meant “tinkling anklets’. The idea of any “tinkling” is speculation. The word concretely means ankle fetter and is used on a fool in Proverbs 7:22. See #5914. Perhaps the picture is that of the built-ones/daughters tripping because their “ankles” are fettered. How beautiful are “the feet” of him who bears good news….? |