Word: destroyeth
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...study is linguistic and textual. By comparing Ugaritic texts with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should be the more meaningful "power." Yale's Marvin Pope, a Ugaritic expert who translated Job for the Anchor Bible, cites another clarification. In Job 41:25, King James reads: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify...
...destroyeth my faith in democracy...
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