H5125

• {"n":"Psalm 72:17","s":"His name shall be continued as long as the sun. Yinnon, a word used only here, read by Jewish tradition as one of the Messiah's own names.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=psalm-72-17","r":"Psalm 72:17","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads shall be continued, endure, or flourish, treating yinnon as an ordinary Hebrew verb, correctly by the plain grammar, though without capturing the tradition that reads it as a proper name."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"Imagine a phrase, his name shall endure, where one Hebrew word for endure occurs nowhere else in the whole Bible, rare enough that later readers began treating it not as an ordinary verb but as a proper name in its own right, Yinnon, a title for a future king to come. English continued keeps the ordinary verb sense and loses the name entirely."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Yinnon, related to a root meaning to sprout, flourish, or continue, is a hapax, its only appearance anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. The Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin 98b, records the tradition that Yinnon is one of the Messiah's names, reading the phrase not as his name shall endure but as before the sun, his name is Yinnon, treating the rare word as a title rather than a verb, and connecting it to the wider cluster of sprouting and branch vocabulary associated with messianic expectation."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English continued or endure smooths yinnon into an ordinary predicate, erasing the possibility, taken seriously in the Talmud, that the word functions as an actual name being assigned to a future king, a reading no single-word English translation of a verb can preserve."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a word is a hapax legomenon and later interpretive tradition treats it as a proper name rather than an ordinary word, take that tradition seriously as evidence of how ancient readers themselves heard the rare word, not merely as a curiosity."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Reading yinnon as an ordinary verb, shall be continued or shall endure, matches standard grammatical analysis and is what every translation prints. Reading it as the proper name Yinnon, following the Talmudic tradition, treats this hapax legomenon as a genuine messianic title embedded in an otherwise royal psalm."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d9\u05b4\u05e0\u05bc\u05d5\u05b9\u05df Yinnon (\u05e0\u05d5\u05bc\u05df nun\/\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05df nin, sprout\/continue) \u00b7 H5125"}],"src":["Only occurrence in the Hebrew Bible: Psalm 72:17","Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 98b, on Yinnon as a name of the Messiah"]}