#קוּם is pronounced and transliterated QUM and its aramaic cognate is also קוּם

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thinking about the word the bible uses when god appoints judges. it's not appointing at all, actually. it's "raising." קוּם. god raises up judges. up from where, though? קוּם is elsewhere used in one of the three hb resurrections to refer to what a corpse does when it un-corpses, when it re-turns to life. the once-dead body raises. why is god, then, doing to judges what he does to rotting flesh? what is it about the appointment and the grave that has so much overlap? it's not as simple as seeing the judge as a death sentence. it's more like a non-death sentence. god's call isn't about killing you, it's about having already died and having much more to do, still

#thinking #קוּם is pronounced and transliterated QUM and its aramaic cognate is also קוּם #it is in qal 3ms here #the 'raising' of judges appears in almost every verse of the book #the raising of the dead is 2 kings 13:21 #maybe i will cite all my text posts from now on does anyone find that good