Genesis 3:10
Enigma: Thievery of Self
And he is saying, "I have heard a self eternal voice of yourself within the Protected-Garden, and I am afraid because the city of themselves is my own self (ืื ืื), and I am hiding."And he will will say, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I shall be afraid, because I am naked, and I will hide myself.
And he said, I have heard Your sound in the garden, and I was afraid, for I am naked, and I hid myself.
And he said to him, I heard thy voice as thou walkedst in the garden, and I feared because I was naked and I hid myself.
Footnotes
| 121 | The form ืขืืจื is composed of the singular noun ืขึดืืจ (“city”) with the third person masculine plural pronominal suffix -ื (“their”), yielding the meaning “their city.” This form contrasts with the explicit plural ืขืืจืื (“their cities”), formed from the plural ืขึธืจึดืื, which appears more commonly in narrative or legal prose (e.g., Num. 32:17). |
| 122 | My Own Self Strong’s #595, ืื ืื anoki. This is the stand-alone Hebrew for my ownself. The first-person singular is typically built into Hebrew verb constructs, but this is an emphatic. It occurs 359 times. Scholars have never understood its significance: " ืึธื ึนืึดื and ืึฒื ึดื appear to be two parallel formations (both containing the element ani)" (Brown-Driver-Briggs) Strongs #589 ืื ื is the "contracted" form of I, myself. What is clear is that there is a distinction and that this mystery is only in regard to this pronoun of the ego "I" self. But this can be theoretically broken down with ื- understood as a first person possessive suffix my/of myself. With that in mind, we find some logic of my-self for ืื ื. But what about the extended form ืื ืื? Scholars were stumped: In some cases ืื ื and ืื ืื appear capable of being used indifferently; in others the choice seems to have been determined, partly by rhythmical considerations, partly by a growing preference for ืึฒื ึดื among later writers. (cf. BDB #595) But what distinguishes the two is the addition of the letter kaf ื which represents a palm of a hand. There being two palms on every person, it would follow that the meaning was meant to be along the lines of my other self. Or myself of myself, a meaning that parallels another enigma, "I am who I am." “So also men ought to love the women of themselves as the bodies of themselves. The one agape-loving the woman of himself, agape-loves his own self (แผαυτแฝธν reflexive).” Eph. 5:28 literal |