Genesis 3:6
And the Woman is perceiving for he has become good the Wood for a food, and for a desire himself to the Dual-Eyes, and he-who-is-coveted is the Wood to cause to be interwoven,114 and she is taking from his fruit, and she is eating, and she is giving, also to the woman close beside herself,115 and he is eating.
Footnote:
| 114 | Strong’s #7919, שכל sakal. Primitively to interweave/lay crosswise. (See Brown Driver Briggs II) This is not the normal late Hebrew word for wisdom which is chakam (#2449). In Genesis it is used only two times. In late Hebrew this word is often used in the sense of insight, prudence, understanding. The root also has another primary meaning shakal as "to bereave" or "abortion". In Hosea 9:14 it is used in the negative sense of "miscarriage". Gesenius defines the primary meaning as "to look at, to behold" and that the idea of prudent or insight as it might mean here is "figurative." The second use found in Genesis provides an obvious concrete definition: And Israel is sending אֶת-his right-one, and he is setting upon the head of Dual-Fruit, and himself is the Little-one, and אֶת-his left-one upon the head of Forgotten; he has interwoven/crossed[sakal] אֶת-his dual-hands… (Gen. 48:14) Of particular interest, in the book of Proverbs we find its figurative definition in the context of a wife: an interwoven [sakal] woman is from the Lord (Prov. 19:14) |