Oholah and Oholibah
In the
There is a pun in these names in the Hebrew. Oholah means "her tent", and Oholibah means "my tent is in her".[2]
The Hebrew prophets frequently compared the
And she doted upon concubinage with them, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus thou didst call to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, when they from Egypt bruised thy breasts for the bosom of thy youth.
— Ezekiel 23:20–21[5]
23:44
There are many opinions available on a detail of translation. "'He went in to her as to a harlot, indeed they have gone in to Oholah and Oholibah אשח of wickedness.' The easiest and perhaps correct solution to the difficulty of the anomalous אשח in this verse is to assume the text is corrupt and emend it."[6] Most translators chose synonyms for harlot.
Catharism
In the divergent Theology of the
See also
References
- ^ Ezekiel 23:4 (KJV); Ezekiel 23:4
- ISBN 978-0-19-939387-9.
- OCLC 243545942.
- ISBN 978-3-662-46752-7.
- ^ Ezekiel 23:20–21
- ISBN 1-57506-900-8.