Day: May 15, 2011

And YHWH Elohim formed Man out of dry, loose earth dirt Genesis 2:7a (my translation) Formed – Something very odd occurs in this verse.  In fact, there are two rather unusual linguistic events here.  The first is about how we were made.  Normally, the verb yatsar (to form, to fashion, to shape) is spelled Yod-Tsadde-Resh. …