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These words were said by David the Prophet of Jesus.?

"They have pierced my hands and my feet, they have numbered my bones"

What do these words mean in a biblical sense?

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Update:

Thankyou great answer

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  • 1 decade ago
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    That's a mis-translation.

    Psalm 22 actually says:

    "For dogs have surrounded me, a pack of evil-doers has enclosed me,

    Like the prey of a lion are my hands and my feet.

    I can count all my bones, they look on me and gloat over me." (v. 17)

    I have the original Hebrew text right in front of me (and I know how to read and understand it). The grammar is dense and subtle, to understand it requires years of study.

    For just one example, " Asaper kol atzmoti" clearly has a first person prefix, therefore it is "I count all my bones", not *they*.

    And "K-ari" clearly means "like... a lion"; there is nothing here about "pierced".

    Please do not be misled by the distortions of the English translations from the Koine Greek Septuagint of the original Hebrew TaNaKh. Many of these are deliberately twisted in order to back-engineer J*sus into the "Old Testament".

    If you could read the original text, you could see this for yourself. If you cannot, then please trust those of us who have studied the Hebrew text all our lives. That isn't what it says!

    Source(s): Me, reading TaNaKh in Hebrew since 1955. Currently I use the ArtScroll Stone edition.
  • 1 decade ago

    I believe it was the 22nd psalm I do not have a bible handy but it amazes me that David described what happened to Jesus on the cross over a thousand years before it happened.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the crucifixion, also when the lamb was sacrificed at the passover it had to be unblemished and no bones were to be broken

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