Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

86 ECCLESIASTES
twice, however, in the form njn in Ph. inscriptions where there is no
reason to suspect Aram, influence, one coming from the Piraeus and the
other from N. Africa (cf. G. A. Cooke, No. Sem. Ins., 97; 150). Prob-
ably the root is njn, which occurs in Ps. 37 3 Pr. 15" Hos. i2 2 15. rwr],
Pu. part, from my used only in Pi. and Pu., "to be perverse, crooked."
The figurative uses in Ps. ii9 78 and Lam. 3 36 - 69 are no objection to this
general meaning (cf. ch. 7 13 i2 3
Job ig s
34" Am. 8 5 Ps. I46 9
).
Gins.'s inference from this latter passage that the word means "de-
pressed" is unfounded. Bick. (10, 47) erases the second "wj,
repetitions are characteristic of Q. (cf. 4* 6 3 8 12
). IpnV]
8 3
but such
is rendered
as a passive by several of the versions (