Chuàngshìjì 38:21

21 Jiù wèn nà dìfang de rén shuō , yī ná yìn lùpáng de jìnǚ zaì nǎli , tāmen shuō , zhèlǐ bìng méiyǒu jìnǚ .

Chuàngshìjì 38:21 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 38:21

Then he asked the men of that place
Or "of her place" {d}, of the woman's place, supposing that she dwelt somewhere thereabout: saying, where [is] the harlot that [was] openly by the wayside?
that sat there very publicly some little time ago: the word for "harlot" ^F5 comes from another, which signifies to sanctify or separate to holy uses; and harlots were so called, either by an antiphrasis, by way of contradiction, being unholy; or because, as Jarchi observes, they were separated and destined to whoredom; or because they were such as were devoted to Venus, and the worshippers of her, and prostitutes in her temple, and in the temples of other Heathen deities; but it is questionable whether such practices as yet were used; and they said, there was no harlot in this [place];
they had not known any harlot to frequent that place lately, and Tamar sat there so small a time as not to have been observed by them.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 (hmqm yvna) "viros loci ejus, scil mulieris", Piscator, Schimdt.
F5 (hvdqh)

Chuàngshìjì 38:21 In-Context

19 Tāmǎ qǐlai zǒu le , chú qù pàzi , réngjiù chuān shàng zuò guǎfu de yīshang .

20 Yóudà tuō tā péngyou Yàdùlánrén sòng yī zhī shānyánggāo qù , yào cóng nà nǚrén shǒu lǐ qǔhuí dàngtóu lái , què zhǎo bú zhe tā .

21 Jiù wèn nà dìfang de rén shuō , yī ná yìn lùpáng de jìnǚ zaì nǎli , tāmen shuō , zhèlǐ bìng méiyǒu jìnǚ .

22 Tā huí qù jiàn Yóudà shuō , wǒ méiyǒu zhǎo zhe tā , bìngqiĕ nà dìfang de rén shuō , zhèlǐ méiyǒu jìnǚ .

23 Yóudà shuō , wǒ bǎ zhè shānyánggāo sòng qù le , nǐ jìng zhǎo bù zhe tā . rènpíng tā ná qù ba , miǎndé wǒmen beì xiūrǔ .