I do not believe that my belief is an ideological spin, but rather I sincerely believe that the translation of the word kamar as “burnt/burned” most accurately reflects the idea of “hot”, “black”, “intertwining”, “contracting”, and “shriveling”. ( Our skin is burned like from a furnace, from being buffeted from the tempests of hunger. “Our skin is burnt as a furnace, of the face of tempest of hunger. With that in mind, I submit to you, the reader, the following translation which I believe reflects the meaning of the word kamar most accurately: When looking at the breakdown of the word in Strong’s Concordance, we see that it carries the idea of intertwining, contracting, and shriveling ( as with heat ). 16:21 ) and is translated as “hot” in the modern versions ( NIV, NASB, NKJV ) as well as the KJV.įor two, the word kamar is elsewhere translated as “yearn” ( Gen. Here, the word for “hot” is chamam ( #2552 Str. For one, the children of Yisrael were elsewhere in scripture described to be “hot as an oven” ( Hos. To merely translate the word kamar as “hot” does not express the fullness of the meaning of the word. Which is correct? Rather than play a game of ideological warfare wherein “black” people try their best to make it out to mean “black”, and “white” people try their best to make it out to mean “hot”, let us allow the scriptures to interpret the scriptures. The Hebrew word kamar is translated by the KJV as “black”, whereas in the modern translations such as the NKJV, NIV, and NASB, it is translated as “hot“. ) here is not the normal word used in the scriptures to describe the color “black” ( shachor – #7838 Str. The controversy stems from the fact that the word “black” ( kamar – #3648 Str. It is indeed one the most controversial verses of scripture that deal with the physical appearance of the children of Yisrael.
This is a description of the condition experienced by the children of Yahudah ( Judah ) during the times of the Babylonian captivity.
“Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine” ( Lam.
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