Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel: Jesaja 3:17

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Jesaja 3:17

Marten Stol, Women in the Ancient Near East, [2016], p. 25

- -, Algemeen, [], David Steinberg, Where is Your Heart? Some Body Part Metaphors and Euphemisms in Biblical Hebrew, [2003]; female external genital organs=פּת Word is of uncertain meaning. Meaning is either: (a) socket used as euphemism for pudenda or (b) pudenda used for socket in the same way we refer to a female plug or (c) forehead or the like.

- -, Algemeen, [],
Bedouin Silver
Vertaling Bijbel, Kanttekeningen SV, [], Zo zal de HEERE den schedel der dochteren van Sion [51]schurftig maken, en [52]de HEERE zal haar schaamte ontbloten.
51. Of, schurft; anders kaal. Op de schurftheid volgt gemeenlijk
kaalheid of uitvalling van het haar. Anderen verstaan het aldus:
dat zij in der vijanden hand en geweld vervallen zouden, die haar
het haar kaal afscheren zouden, gelijk men den slaven en
lijfeigenen pleegt te doen.
52. Dat is, de Heere zal haar laten beroven van hare klederen,
alzo dat zij zullen moeten naakt gaan, en niet zoveel hebben
zullen, dat zij hare schaamte bedekken kunnen.

Krant, Haaretz, [], Sep 01, 2015
Elon Gilad, Haaretz Contributor

If St Jerome and other experts are right, Israelis may have thought that 'pot' meant vulva, but actually they were saying cup. Or forehead. Or maybe something else.

As in English, Hebrew has more than one word for the female genitalia. The most commonly used word in day-to-day parlance is koos, a vulgar word that Hebrew adopted from Persian by way of Arabic. There are other colloquialisms, to be sure: tuta and manush, to name a couple. All are roughly akin to "pussy" - neither scientific, nor terribly offensive.

But the "official" word, used in sex-ed classes, textbooks and in awkward conversations with the gynecologist, is pot. With a long "o" (as in "note"). Technically that means "vulva" but it has come to be used more generally to mean "lady parts". For this, Israelis can thank the Prophet Isaiah and his obtuse prophesies. That is the only place the word 'pot' appears in the bible.

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