ʾerek ʾappayim

  • Cease Fire

    The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked.  Nahum 1:3  KJV   Not at all acquit – The KJV choses to translate doubled verb wenāqqeh yenāqqeh in the legal negative sense (“acquit”) but the verb is usually translated in the positive “leave unpunished.”  In addition, as you can see in the Hebrew, the phrase uses the…