Genesis 38:11
And Cast is saying to Palm-Tree his kallah,1193 `Sit bound-one1194 in the house of your father until Petition my builder is growing-great.` For he said, `Lest he is dying—also himself—like his brothers.` And Palm-Tree is walking, and she is sitting in the house of her father.
| 1194 | The Widow is Bound Strong’s #488. Alman. A bound/tied up one. Prolonged from 'alam in the sense of bereavement. Alam (#481) means to bind, be dumb, put to silence. Root definitions like these are why some scholars in the past have denounced the etymological study of the Hebrew root system. What an interesting thing to call a widow! Refer to the “sheafs” of Joseph’s dream in Gen. 37:7. “He has been oppressed, himself is he-who-is-humbled, and he is not opening his mouth, like the Sheep to the Slaughter he is conducted, and like an ewe [Rachel] to the faces of those-who-shave-her has been bound [alam], and he is not opening his mouth.” Isaiah 53:7 literal |