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The Piel נִקֵּשׁ properly signifies to catch in snares; here, like the Arabic Arab. nqš, II, IV, corresponding to the Latin obligare (as referring to the creditor's right of claim); nosheh is the name of the creditor as he who gives time for payment, gives credit (vid., Isa 24:2). In Psa 109:12 מָשַׁךְ חֶסֶד, to draw out mercy, is equivalent to causing it to continue and last, Psa 36:11, cf. Jer 31:3. אַֽחֲרִיתֹו, Psa 109:13, does not signify his future, but as Psa 109:13 (cf. Psa 37:38) shows: his posterity. יְהִי לְהַכְרִית is not merely exscindatur, but exscindenda sit (Eze 30:16, cf. Jos 2:6), just as in other instances חָיָה לְ corresponds to the active fut. periphrasticum, e.g., Gen 15:12; Isa 37:26. With reference to יִמַּח instead of יִמָּח (contracted from יִמָּחֶה), vid., Ges. §75, rem. 8. A Jewish acrostic interpretation of the name יֵשׁוּ runs: יִמַּח שְׁמֹו וְזִכְרֹו. This curse shall overtake the family of the υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας. All the sins of his parents and ancestors shall remain indelible above before God the Judge, and here below the race, equally guilty, shall be rooted out even to its memory, i.e., to the last trace of it.