Notes on the Hebrew Text and the Topography of the Books of Samuel (Biblia.com)

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This book, authored by Samuel Driver of Brown-Driver-Briggs fame, tackles what is one of the thorniest books of the Old Testament from a text-critical point of view. It is considered by many to be one of the best commentaries on Samuel ever written. Initially published in 1890, it is still regarded as a model of text-critical method—which is noteworthy in light of the rugged condition of the...

in the Mishnah: Siegfried and Strack, Lehrbuch der Neuhebräischen Sprache (1884), § 55b. The word is, however, a suspicious one. פצר is to push or press upon (Gen. 19:9), or to urge by persuasion (Gen. 19:3. 33:11. 2 Ki. 2:17. 5:16); and does not occur elsewhere in the Hif.: if correct, הפצר can mean only to display pushing (the ‘internal Hif.,’ GK. § 53d), i. e., in the inf., forwardness, presumption (not ‘stubbornness,’ EVV.). Klo. suggests חֵפֶץ רַע evil desire, which Bu. adopts; but this is a poor

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