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An indispensable and incomparable reference work, the Theological Lexicon of the Old Testament—newly translated from the original German edition—makes a wealth of theological insight accessible for the first time in English. In these volumes, outstanding scholars provide in-depth and wide-ranging investigations of the historical, semantic, and theological meanings of Old Testament concepts. This...

The form *qadiš is suggested by the Akk. noun qadištu(m) “pure, consecrated” and the verb forms qa-dì-iš “is consecrated” (stative G stem) in Ugaritica 5:9.22, qa-di-šu “are holy” (also stative G stem) in EA 137:32, and, with metathesis of the consonants dš, lā qašid “is unclean” in BWL 215:13. The Hebr. verbal adj. (qal act. ptcp.) qādēš “holy one” and the verb form qādēšû “are holy” in Num 17:2 (in contrast to weqādaš in Exod 29:21) are significant in this respect, as are the Aram.
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