Genesis 4:3
And he is becoming from the cut-off159 of the days, and Spearhead is causing to come in from the fruit of the Red-one an offering to Yahweh.
| 159 | Strong’s #7093. qets. a cut-off. Noun often translated as “end”. Derived from #7112, qatsats, to cut off, hew off, chop off. As in cutting off the hand (2 Sam. 4:2), cutting a rope in two (Psa. 129:4), cutting off hair (Jer. 9:26), etc. To say “the end of several days” doesn’t make sense. For what is the “end” of several days? It would make more sense, and the Hebrew vocabulary is available, for the author to write, “after several days” just as he does regarding duplications in genealogies. “Days” however encode an enigma as in, “sons of Day” mentioned by Paul in 1 Thes 5:5 and “those days are cut-off” by Jesus in Matt. 24:22. |