35:16 “But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, 6 he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.
1 tc The Greek version has “death.”
2 tn Heb “came down.”
3 tn The verb used here means “crush by beating,” or “pounded” them. The Greek text used “cut them in pieces.”
4 tn The name “Hormah” means “destruction”; it is from the word that means “ban, devote” for either destruction or temple use.
3 tn The verb is the Hiphil perfect of נָכָה (nakhah), a term that can mean “smite, strike, attack, destroy.”
4 tn the verb is the preterite of “die.” The sentence has :“if…he strikes him and he dies.” The vav (ו) consecutive is showing the natural result of the blow.