Kommentar zu Jeschijahu 11:8

shall play Heb. וְשִׁעֲשַׁע, shall play.

ושעשע And shall play. In this sense the word has always the reduplication.

over the hole of an old snake over a hole in the ground in which the snake makes its nest [krot in O.F.], a cave. an old snake פֶּתֶן. A snake, when it ages, becomes deaf and is called פֶּתֶן. From then on, it cannot be charmed; as it is said (Psalms 58:6): “Who will not hearken to the voice of charmers.”

חור The aperture of the nose or mouth.

and over the eyeball of a venomous snake Jonathan renders: the eyeballs of venomous snakes [מְאוּרַת from אוֹר, light]. Menahem (Machbereth Menachem p. 32) interpreted it as an expression of a hole, namely holes in the ground. Comp. (Gen. 11:28) “The valley of the Chaldees (אוּר)”; (infra 24:15) “In the valleys (בָּאוּרִים) honor the Lord.”

מאורת The eye, which receives the light.⁹חור and מאורת are usually explained as the holes from which the animals mentioned in this verse come forth. A. V., Hole, Den.

a weaned child a child weaned from his mother’s breasts.

הדה He stretches forth; ה perhaps for י. Comp. יְרוּ stretch forth (Jer. 1. 14); or it is hapax legomenon.¹⁰According to the first explanation הדה is not hap. leg., although no other instance of the word is found in the Bible, because several examples are found of ידה, which is considered to be same as הדה.

shall stretch forth his hand Heb. הָדָה. Jonathan renders: shall stretch forth his hands (sic). Comp. (Ezekiel 7:7) “The joyful call (הֵד) of the mountains, also (infra 16: 9) “The cry (הֵידָד),” which is an expression of raising the voice. This, too, is an expression of raising, and the final [letter] ‘heh’ appears in it as a radical which sometimes falls out, like עָשָׂה (made), בָּנָה (built), קָנָה (acquired).