| 释义 |
‖ Keri Heb. O.T.|kəˈriː|
Also k'ri, qere, Q⊇re, q'ri.
[Heb., imp. of qārā to read.]
In the Hebrew text of the O.T., the word, given in the margin, to be substituted in reading for that standing in the text (kethib), the latter having been retained by the Masoretes as evidenced by MSS. or tradition, though considered erroneous or unintelligible.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 46 Ask a Talmudest what ails the modesty of his marginall Keri, that Moses and all the Prophets cannot persuade him to pronounce the textuall Chetiv. 1659Bp. Walton Consid. Considered 112 Certain marginal notes in the Hebrew Bibles, where the Keri is the word that must be read, placed in the margin, with a {pp}ק: the Ketib, or word written in the text, marked with a little circle or cipher. 1881W. R. Smith Old Test. in Jew. Ch. iii. 16 These notes are called Keris, the word Keri being the imperative ‘read!’ The expression actually written in the text, but not uttered is called Kethîb (written). 1941R. H. Pfeiffer Introd. Old Testament i. v. 93 The kethib (written) is the consonantal text; the qere (read) is an accepted reading differing from the consonantal text. Ibid. 95 Long after the introduction of the qere ‘Lord’ for YHWH..vulgar expressions in the text..were removed by substituting a euphemism in the reading (qere). 1958F. Kenyon Our Bible & Anc. MSS. (ed. 5) iv. 78 Such variations were known by the name of Q⊇re (‘read’) and k⊇thib (‘written’), the latter being the reading of the text, and the former that of the margin, which was to be substituted for the other when the passage was read. 1968J. Barr Compar. Philol. & Text of Old Testament x. 246 Here, however, there is a rather peculiar Qere. Ibid. 247 The translation at 1 Sam. 25. 14 makes it extremely probable that the LXX is a translation not of the present Kethibh at 14. 32 but of the present Qere. 1969R. K. Harrison Introd. Old Testament (1970) iv. ii. 213 The preferred reading was known as Q⊇re, meaning ‘that which is to be read’, as contrasted with the sacred consonantal text, the K⊇thibh or ‘written’ Scripture. The Q⊇re on occasions may have constituted a genuine variant reading. |