The Five Books of Moses by Robert Alter

Author:Robert Alter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W.W & Norton
Published: 2004-07-07T16:00:00+00:00

22. shield you with My palm. The Hebrew kaf means the inside of the hand, the part that holds objects, and is not the general word for hand (yad). The conjunction of the verb “shield” (or “screen”) with kaf is unusual, and perhaps kaf is used here because it is the tender part of the hand. Another scholarly proposal is that kaf in this instance is an assimilative spelling of kanaf, “wing” (or “border,” of a garment), a noun elsewhere idiomatically associated with shielding or protection.

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