[675] Cf. the Greek οἰδα from εἰδειν. [676] vi. 9. [677] See above, pp. 258, 275; and below, p. 323. [678] viii. 5: cf. xxix. 3 (Eng. 4), _Jehovah did not give you a heart to know_. [679] Job xix. 13: still more close, of course, the intimacy between the sexes for which the verb is so often used in the Old Testament. [680] xix. 25: cf. Gen. xx. 6. [681] viii. 9. [682] viii. 5: cf. Hosea ix. 7. [683] ix. 21. [684] 1 Sam. ii. 12. A similar meaning is probably to be attached to the word in Gen. xxxix. 6: Potiphar _had no thought_ or _care for anything_ that was in Joseph's hand. Cf. Prov. ix. 13; xxvii. 23; Job xxxv. 15. [685] Gen. iii. 7. [686] Gen. iii. 5; Isa. vii. 15, etc. [687] iv. 14, לא־יבין עם: if the original meaning of בין be to _get between_, _see through_ or _into_, so _discriminate_, _understand_, then intelligence is its etymological equivalent. [688] vii. 11. See above, p. 321, _n._ 4. [689] vii. 9. [690] iv. 1. [691] v. 4. [692] For exposition of this chapter see above, pp. 256 ff. [693] iv. 11, 12, LXX. [694] iv. 14 f. See above, pp. 258 f. [695] vii. _passim_. [696] iv. 4-9. Above, pp. 257 f. [697] vi. 1 ff. See above, pp. 263 ff. [698] vi. 4. [699] iv. 6. See above, p. 257. [700] See above, pp. 97 f. On the other doubtful phrase, viii. 12--literally _I write multitudes of My Torah, as a stranger they have reckoned it_--no argument can be built; for even if we take the first clause as conditional and render, _Though I wrote multitudes of My Torôth, yet as those of a stranger they would regard them_, that would not necessarily mean that no Torôth of Jehovah were yet written, but, on the contrary, might equally well imply that some at least had been written. [701] Or _was overcome_. [702] xii. 4-6. See above, p. 302. LXX. reads _they supplicated Me ... they found Me ... He spoke with them_. Many propose to read the last clause _with him_. The passage is obscure. Note the order of the events--the wrestling at Peniel, the revelation at Bethel, then in the subsequent passage the flight to Aram. This however does not prove that in Hosea's information the last happened after the two first. [703] שׁדה, _field_, here used in its political sense: cf. _Hist. Geog._, p. 79. Our word _country_, now meaning territory and now the rural as opposed to the urban districts, is strictly analogous to the Hebrew _field_. [704] xii. 13, 14. [705] _A youth._ [706] LXX., followed by many critics, _his sons_. But _My son_ is a better parallel to _young_ in the preceding clause. Or trans.: _to be My son_. [707] So LXX. See p. 293. [708] So rightly LXX. [709] xi. 1-3. [710] ix. 10. [711] xiii. 4-6. [712] xii. 10. Other references to the ancient history are the story of Gibeah and the Valley of Achor. [713] ii. 10. [714] See above, p. 302. [715] iv. 6. [716] xiii. 5. [717] With Wellhausen read אֶהְיֶה for וָאֱהִי. [718] See above, p. 305, _n._ 4. [719] xiii. 7 ff. [720] vi. 3. [721] viii. 2.