For Love of Money

[Burning one]

From what I can tell, R:Ch:M peal, which is used in this verse, denotes the connotation of "to favor" or "to prefer". One noun form of it is "friend", logically derived from a "favored" or "preferred" person. The noun form used in this verse appears to be "the favor" or "the preference" itself. So "the favoring of silver" or "the favor of silver" is certainly as appropriate as "the preference of silver".

This is how Payne Smith lists the `Ch:B aphel stem, which I tend to think is the right stem for "love":

to kindle; to love; that ye should love one another; whoso loveth; to be loved; beloved; beloved of God

For me, I am not comfortable with using "love" for both the R:Ch:M and Ch:B stems, but instead for the stem for which it seems most contextually appropriate, the Ch:B stem.

Shlama,

i agree that the idea of RKHM is more of a preference/desire than the KHB of a beloved sense. my only reservation is the way it is used in such close proximity to KHB at times, like, for instance, in 2 Timothy 3:4, or 1 John 2:15. it would appear that the authors included the separate terms to differentiate the subtle nuance between the ideas being proposed.

Interestingly, the Pehitta AN"K and Hebrews 12:6, which is quoting from it, uses RKHM, where the Hebrew text itself uses the AHAB root. it would be an interesting study to check the various places in the Peshitta NT that are quotations from the Hebrew which have RKHM / KHB, and see what the word is in the original Hebrew, to try to ascertain if there is any method to the translation process concerning choice of term.


Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy