Chol (bible)

Chol (Hebrew: ח֗וֹל) in the Hebrew Bible is translated in different ways: as 'palm tree' (Ancient Greek: στέλεχος φοίνικος; stélechos phoínikos stem/trunk of a palm tree; Latin: palma}}; French: palmier),LXX (see also the dictionary definition of στέλεχος, φοῖνιξ and Φοῖνιξ at Wiktionary), , , , Knox Bible, La Bible Fillion. occasionally as 'phoenix',, , , , , , , . and usually as 'sand' (German: Sand).: Ich gedachte: „Ich will in meinem Nest ersterben und meiner Tage viel machen wie Sand.“: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand. The Westminster Leningrad Codex reads:
In Jewish folklore, chol refers to a supernatural bird, often glossed as, or identified with, the Greek 'phoenix'.
Alternately, chol may have simply been a noun meaning 'sand', which condensates idiomatic expressions like ″so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the [very, very many grains of] sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.″ Subsequently, due to the context of its employment, the word 'sand' was displaced by the long-lived 'palm tree' and the very, very long-lived regenerative bird.See also: Metphor and metonymy.
The understanding of chol as a phoenix-like bird has resulted in an amount of discourse on the topic.Slifkin (2007:235-238).
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==References==
* Slifkin, Natan (2007). Sacred Monsters: Mysterious and Mythical Creatures of Scripture, Talmud and Midrash. Zoo Torah. ISBN 9781933143187
*Lecocq, Françoise (2014). « Y a-t-il un phénix dans la Bible ? À propos de Job 29:18, de Tertullien, De resurrectione carnis 13, et d’Ambroise, De excessu fratris 2, 59 », Kentron 30, 2014, p. 55-81.
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