Biblica_1_Layout 1 20/01/12 11:44 Pagina 486 486 JOHN MAKUJINA 1 Chr 12,41 records an occasion where cattle in fact serve as pack animals (rqbb). Ziegler, nevertheless, dismisses it as a later expan- sion and further complains that the reference in 1 Chr 12,41 is to rqb and not ~ypwla 22. But here Ziegler may be guilty of drawing overly subtle distinctions, as well as revising the text without pressing reasons to do so. Moreover, limiting the sense of ~ylbsm to “loaded on top of”, as Th. Booij does, may also be unnecessarily restrictive 23, since the sense “loaded” could apply to draft animals (1 Sam 6,7.10.12; 2 Sam 6,3.6) as well as pack animals (1 Chr 12,41). As a final possibility, ~ylbsm could conceivably describe yoked- oxen pulling a plow, a more readily verifiable task for these animals (Deut 22,10; 1 Sam 11,5; 1 Kgs 19,19; Job 1,14) 24. Nevertheless, the beginning of the process — plowing — is less appropriate as a symbol of blessing than the termination — transporting the harvest. It is evident, then, that this translation must overcome a number of obstacles, even though it remains closer to the documented meaning of the root than the previous one (“well fed”). Moreover, Briggs-Briggs’ observation that it would be awkward to return to the blessings of the harvest after they have already been covered in v. 13a may present the greatest challenge to this translation 25. The first candidate in the list, “well cared for”, will be addressed in the closing sections of this paper, since it is a component of the author ’s overall hypothesis. 2. Reproductive Definition: #rp The third weakness of the miscarriage translation involves the noun #rp. Initially, we can observe that the connection between the '.;' pair #rp and tacwy in Ps 144,14 and the same in Gen 38,29 (#r,P,, TcrP, and ac'y) appears to be coincidental, primarily because the terms con- vey a successful birth in Gen 38,29 but unsuccessful (allegedly) in Ps 22 ZIEGLER, “Ps 144”, 195. 23 BOOIJ, “Psalm 144”, 177, and n. 19. 24 Cfr., KIMCHI, Psalms CXX-CL, 127; J. GILL, Gill’s Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI 1980) III, 407; repr. of An Exposition of the Old Testament, in which the Sense of the Sacred Text is Taken (London 1748-1763). 25 C.A. BRIGGS ‒ E.G. BRIGGS, The Book of Psalms (ICC; Edinburgh 1907) 523.