Komentaryong Sumisipi para sa Ezekiel 39:9

Job had seven sons and three daughters; his children were like olive saplings around his table (Psalms 128:3), a shield and a fence (Jeremiah 46:3; Ezekiel 39:9; Psalms 35:2).

AND, BEHOLD, THE BUSH ‘BO’EIR’ (BURNED) WITH FIRE. [The word bo’eir] has the same meaning as doleik (burning),¹⁴¹Ramban’s intent is to solve this difficulty: In the verse before us it says, and, behold, the bush ‘bo’eir’, and in Verse 3 it says that Moses asked, why the bush is not ‘yiv’ar’? Ramban explains that in the first case, bo’eir has the same meaning as doleik (burning), while yiv’ar means “consumed.” i.e., [the bush] was in the midst of a burning fire, and it is like the verse, and the fathers ‘m’va’arim’ the fire,¹⁴²Jeremiah 7:18. meaning, “kindling” and burning the wood with fire. But the expression, why the bush is not ‘yiv’ar’?¹⁴³Verse 3. means, “why is it not consumed and wasted?” Similarly, As flax that was ‘ba’aru’ with fire¹⁴⁴Judges 15:14. means “consumed.” And so is the opinion of Onkelos, who translated the first [bo’eir] as bo’eir (burning), and the second one [yiv’ar] as mitokad, [the Aramaic word for “consumed”]. It may be that yiv’ar has the same meaning as in the verses, ‘Uvi’arta’ (So shalt thou put away) the evil from the midst of thee;¹⁴⁵Deuteronomy 17:7. Then a man useth it ‘l’va’eir’ (for fodder).¹⁴⁶Isaiah 44:15. The expression “for fodder” suggests destruction and annihilation. See R’dak, (mentioned in my Hebrew commentary, p. 288), who so interprets this verse. Here then the sense of the verse would be: “why does the fire not remove or eat up the bush altogether?” Such is the style of the Sacred Language to use [one term in the same instance with two different meanings], as in the verse: They rode on thirty ‘ayarim’ (ass colts) and they had thirty ‘ayarim’ (cities).¹⁴⁷Judges 10:4. Thus the word ayarim has two separate meanings in the same verse. In the instance before us here, the Hebrew root bo’eir is used with two separate meanings: burning, and consuming or removing.

fire was kindled against Jacob Heb. נשקה, as (Ezek. 39:9): “and make fires and heat up (והשיקו),” which is an expression of heating and burning. As it is written (Num. 11:1): “and God’s fire broke out against them.”