Phrases Analyzed - Vehicular Structure

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Phrases Analyzed "vehicular structure"

(Blumrich translation) Ezekiel 43:3 And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city. And the vehicular structure I saw was like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar and I fell upon my face.

Blumrich outright mistranslated this because he did not know Hebrew. In the Hebrew, the same word is used for "vision" and what Blumrich translates as "vehicular structure". The root, reysh-alef-hey, means to see and the derivative mem-reysh-alef-hey conveys the concept "view", "vision", "sight", "appearance". In essence, adding the mem turns it into a participle, i.e., the "ing" form. In other words, reysh-alef-hey means "see" and mem-reysh-alef-hey means "the being seen", i.e., the "appearance".

The reysh-alef-hey root simply does not contain the concept "vehicle". Blumrich is just wrong.
 
New International Version (NIV) The vision I saw was like the vision I had seen when he came to destroy the city and like the visions I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown.

Revised Standard Version (RSV) And the vision I saw was like the vision which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like the vision which I had seen by the river Chebar and I fell upon my face.

Ezekiel 43:3 Top: Masoretic text with vowels and singing marks. Bottom: Plain

Literal translations with Strong's Numbers: (vowels pronounced like Spanish)

Strong	Meaning	Hebrew		Pronunciation
| 4758 |	And like the appearance of	וכמראה		ukh-mar-e   (kh is like ch in Bach)
| 4759 |	the appearance (or vision)	המראה		ha-mar-e
|   834 |	which	אשר		a-sher
| 7200 |	I saw	ראיתי		ra-i-ti
	[was]
| 4758 |	like the appearance	כמראה		ka-mar-e
|   834 |	which	אשר		a-sher
| 7200 |	I saw	ראיתי		ra-i-ti
|   935 |	when I came (or "he" came)	בבאי		b'vo-i   (' is like "a" in about)
| 7843 |	to destroy	לשחת		li-sha-khet
| 5892 |	the city.	את־העיר		eht ha-ir
| 4759 |	And the appearances	ומראות		u-mar-ot   (ה is singular, ות is plural)
	[were]
| 4758 |	like the appearance	כמראה		ka-mar-e
|   834 |	which	אשר		a-sher
| 7200 |	I saw	ראיתי		ra-i-ti
| 5921 |	by (or at)	אל		al
| 5104 |	the River	נהר		n'har
| 3529 |	Chebar.	כבר		k'var
| 5307 |	And I fell	ואפל		va-e-pol
| 5921 |	on (or to)	אל		al
| 6440 |	my face.	פני		pa-nai

Again, an examination of a literal translation clearly indicates that Blumrich simply misread the text because he was not working from the original Hebrew and did not know about research tools available for textual analysis. The passage says nothing about "vehicular structure". Also, as the Soncino extensive analysis and commentary on Ezekiel shows, although Blumrich consulted good resources, he simply "dismissed" them because they disproved his theory.