Woman, a Power Equal to Man
Translation of woman as a “fit helpmate” for man is questioned
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Endnotes
Remember that Proverbs 31:10 describes the perfect wife as e
Ugaritic also has the root g
See Deuteronomy 33:7; Psalms 33:20, 89:20 and 115:9–11; Ezekiel 12:14; Isaiah 30:5; Daniel 11:34.
Another example of the Bible’s use of both meanings of a double entendre can be found in Genesis 9:20–27, where Ham “saw his father’s nakedness” (a euphemism for sexual intercourse, cf. Leviticus 20–17, and so meant in Genesis 9:20–21, as the curse proves, cf. Deuteronomy 27:20), but his brothers literally “cover their father’s nakedness” with a garment that they carry while walking backwards. Immanuel Casanowitz collected some 500 examples of paranomasia (puns) in his Paranomasia in the Old Testament (Boston, 1894).
Other examples of “bone and flesh” that show a similar idiomatic usage are in Judges 9:2, 2 Samuel 5:1–1, 1 Chronicles 11:1, and 2 Samuel 19:13, all of which describe the intimate connection between a king and his constituents.