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Jay's avatar

“Murmureth?”

Very interesting. Is it related to “murmuring” in the negative connotation (the Israelite wandering)?

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Bnonn Tennant's avatar

No, the word here in Psalm 1 is yagah, which has its head in Joshua 1:8:

"This scroll of the direction removest not from thy mouth, and thou shalt murmur in it day and night, to the end that thou guardest to do as unto all that is written in it; for then thou shalt succeed thy way, and then thou shalt be masterful."

The word used in Exodus 15:24 of the people “murmuring” against Moses is lun, which really does not mean to murmur, but rather to stop, resist, be obstinate. “Demur” may be a good translation there, as it has a similar root in English as in Hebrew: to delay.

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