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Genesi 38:21

Listen to Genesi 38:21
21 E ne domandò gli uomini del luogo dove era stata, dicendo: Dove è quella meretrice ch’era alla porta di Enaim in sulla strada? Ed essi risposero: Qui non è stata alcuna meretrice.

Genesi 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 (hmqm yvna) "viros loci ejus, scil mulieris", Piscator, Schimdt.
F5 (hvdqh)
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Genesi 38:21 In-Context

19 Poi si levò, e se ne andò, e si levò d’addosso il suo velo, e si rivestì i suoi abiti vedovili.
20 E Giuda mandò il capretto per le mani di quell’Adullamita, suo famigliare amico, per ritrarre il pegno da quella donna; ma egli non la trovò.
21 E ne domandò gli uomini del luogo dove era stata, dicendo: Dove è quella meretrice ch’era alla porta di Enaim in sulla strada? Ed essi risposero: Qui non è stata alcuna meretrice.
22 Ed egli se ne ritornò a Giuda, e gli disse: Io non ho trovata colei; ed anche gli uomini di quel luogo mi hanno detto: Qui non è stata alcuna meretrice.
23 E Giuda disse: Tengasi pure il pegno, che talora noi non siamo in isprezzo: ecco, io le ho mandato questo capretto; ma tu non l’hai trovata.
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