H0726 H0726
Arameans (Ketiv); textual variant reading 'Edomites' as 'Arameans' (2 Kgs 16:6)
This represents a famous textual crux where the written text (Ketiv) reads 'Arameans' but the reading tradition (Qere) corrects to 'Edomites.' Context favors Edomites recapturing Elath from Judah during the Syro-Ephraimite war. The confusion arose from the graphical similarity between Hebrew resh (Aram) and daleth (Edom). Modern translations follow the Qere, recognizing scribal error.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Second Kings 16:6 states: 'At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and drove the Judahites from Elath, and the [Arameans/Edomites] came to Elath where they dwell to this day.' The Ketiv 'Arameans' conflicts with the context (Edomites retaking their ancestral port makes better sense). The bracketed English '[and-Arameans]' signals textual uncertainty. This illustrates how manuscript transmission occasionally created confusion between similar letters, requiring text-critical judgment to recover original meaning. 1×
AR["[وَأَرَامِيُّونَ]"]·ben["[এবং-অরামীয়রা]"]·DE["[and-Arameans]"]·EN["[and-Arameans]"]·FR["[and-Arameans]"]·heb["[וארמים]"]·HI["[और-अरामी]"]·ID["[dan-orang-Aram]"]·IT["[and-Arameans]"]·jav["[lan-tiyang-Aram]"]·KO["[그리고-아람-사람들이]"]·PT["[e-arameus]"]·RU["[и-арамеи]"]·ES["[K]"]·SW["[k]"]·TR["[ve-Aramlılar]"]·urd["[اور-ارامی]"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אֲדֹמִי adj.gent. Edomite Dt 23:8 1 S 21:8; 22:9, 18, 22 1 K 11:14 ψ 52:2; אֲדוֹמִים 2 Ch 25:14; 28:17; so 2 K 16:6 (Qr; Kt ארומים, v. ארם); אֲדֹמִיִּים 1 K 11:17; f. אֲדֹמִיּוֹת 1 K 11:1.