וְ֭לוֹ הֵכִ֣ין כְּלֵי־מָ֑וֶת חִ֝צָּ֗יו לְֽדֹלְקִ֥ים יִפְעָֽל׃
Il s’arme d’engins meurtriers, de ses flèches il fait des brandons.
Guide for the Perplexed
IT is well known that the verb yalad means “to bear,” “they have born (ve-yaledu) him children” (Deut. 21:15). The word was next used in a figurative sense with reference to various objects in nature, meaning, “to create,” e.g. “before the mountains were created” (yulladu) (Ps. 90:2); also, “to produce,” in reference to that which the earth causes to come forth as if by birth, e.g., “He will cause her to bear (holidah) and bring forth” (Isa. 4:10). The verb further denotes, “to bring forth,” said of changes in the process of time, as though they were things which were born, e.g., “for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth” (yeled) (Prov. 27:1). Another figurative use of the word is its application to the formation of thoughts and ideas, or of opinions resulting from them: comp. “and brought forth (ve-yalad) falsehood” (Ps. 7:14); also, “and they please themselves in the children (yalde) of strangers” (Isa. 2:6), i.e., “they delight in the opinions of strangers.” Jonathan the son of Uzziel paraphrases this passage, “they walk in the customs of other nations.”