skrab’l: Occurs only in 1Sa 21:13, as the translation of , tawah: David … feigned himself mad and scrabbled on the doors of the gate. To scrabble (modern English scrawl) is here to make unmeaning marks; tawah means to make a mark from taw, a mark, especially as a cross (Eze 9:4), a signature (Job 31:35, see the Revised Version (British and American)), the name of the Hebrew letter originally made in the form of a cross; the Revised Version margin has made marks; but Septuagint has tumpanzo, to beat as a drum, which the Vulgate, Ewald, Driver and others follow (beat upon or drummed on the doors of the city, which seems more probable).<\/p>\n
‘To make marks’: it is what David did on the door when he feigned madness. 1Sa 21:13.<\/p>\n
Scrabble skrab’l: Occurs only in 1Sa 21:13, as the translation of , tawah: David … feigned himself mad and scrabbled on the doors of the gate. To scrabble (modern English scrawl) is here to make unmeaning marks; tawah means to make a mark from taw, a mark, especially as a cross (Eze 9:4), a signature … Continue reading “Scrabble”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}