Navel (ISBE)

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nā´v ' 50 ( שׁר , shōr . The Septuagint in Proverbs 3:8 suggests a different reading, namely, instead of שׁרּך , shorrekhā , שׁרך , shērekhā = שׁארך , she'ērkhā , "thy flesh")): The King James Version translates the Hebrew shārı̄r in the description of Behemoth (Job 40:16 ) by "navel," where modern translators have substituted "muscles"; similarly in the translation of shōrer (Song of Solomon 7:2 ) it has been replaced by "body.", There remain two passages of the Revised Version (British and American) where "navel" is retained as the translation of shōr . Thus we find the word used, pars pro toto , for the whole being: "It (the fear of Yahweh ) will be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones" (Proverbs 3:8 ). The uttermost neglect which a new-born babe can experience is expressed by Ezekiel: "In the day thou wast born thy navel (i.e. umbilical cord) was not cut neither wast thou washed in water to cleanse thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all" (Ezekiel 16:4 ).

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• part_of source-manifest/isbe — ISBE (PD)