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29 ר “Many are the daughters who have done bravely,
But thou hast surpassed them all together.”
We have already often remarked, last time under Pro 29:6, that רַב, not indeed in its sing., but in its plur. רַבִּים and רַבּוֹת, can precede, after the manner of a numeral, as attribute; but this syntactical licence, Pro 28:12, by no means appears, and needs to be assumed as little here as at Pro 8:26, although there is no reason that can be adduced against it. עָשָׂה חַיִל signifies here not the gaining of riches (the lxx, Syr., Targ., Jerome, Luther, Gesenius, Böttcher, and others), which here, where the encomium comes to its height, would give to it a mercenary mammon-worship note - it indeed has this signification only when connected with ל of the person: Sibi opes acquirere, Deu 6:17; Eze 28:4 - but: bravery, energy, and, as the reference to אֵשֶׁת חַיִל demands, moral activity, capacity for activity, in accordance with one's calling, ποιεῖν ἀρετήν, by which the Venet. translates it. בָּנוֹת is, as in the primary passages, Gen 30:13; Son 6:9, a more delicate, finer name of women than נָשִׁים: many daughters there have always been who have unfolded ability, but thou my spouse hast raised thyself above them all, i.e., thou art excellent and incomparable. Instead of עָלִית, there is to be written, after Chajug, Aben Ezra (Zachoth 7a), and Jekuthiel under Gen 16:11, עָלִיתְ; the Spanish Nakdanim thus distinguish the forms מָצָאתְ, thou hast found, and מָצָאת, she has found. כֻּלָּֽנָה, for כֻּלָּן, Gen 42:36.