Genesis 1:26
And he is saying elohim, a red-one a man has been made within the shadow-image of ourselves,43 according to our mirror-image,44 and they have climbed down45 in a fish46 of the Sea, and in a flying-one of the Dual-Heavenly-ones, and in the behemah, and in the whole of the Earth, and in the whole of the Gliding-one the Gliding-one47 upon the Earth.
Footnote:
| 43 | The Shade/Shadow The preposition for “in” (-ב) is never used as a function of comparison anywhere in the Hebrew scriptures. That function belongs to -כ which is used with the next word “figure”. The suffix is possessive, “our shadow”. Strong’s #6754, tselem. “From an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom”. A shadow image. Cf. Gesenius. “A dark-one and a death-shadow [tsel]…” Job 3:5 literal “they have come in the shadow [tsel] of my beam…” Genesis 19:8 literal “a man [ish] is walking himself about only in a shadow [tselem]. They are roaring only a vapor,. He is heaping up and he is perceiving not who gathers themselves!” Psalm 39:6 literal The form נעשה can be a Qal imperfect 1st person plural, meaning “we are doing” or “we are making” or a Qal perfect passive 3rd person masculine singular, meaning “he was done” or “he was made” Anything made within shadows is probably contrary to that which is made in the light. |