ABSTRACT The hapax legomenon זדה has been called the crux of the Shiloaḥ (Siloam) inscription. It is usually interpreted as ‘fissure, crack, void, cavity, etc’, but sixteen other interpretations have been proposed in the 140 years since the inscription’s discovery. This article argues on contextual and etymological grounds that the lexeme means ‘misalignment’.

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无聊的语言学：西罗亚碑文中 zdh 的含义

摘要 hapax legomenon זדה 被称为 Shiloaḥ（Siloam）铭文的关键。它通常被解释为“裂缝、裂缝、空洞、空洞等”，但自该铭文发现以来的 140 年里，已经提出了 16 种其他解释。本文从语境和词源的角度论证了词位的意思是“错位”。