let us swallow them alive like Sheol

The Hebrew that is translated as “let us swallow them alive like Sheol” or similar in English is translated in Mam with the existing metaphor “they will fall into our (eating-) bowl.” (Source: R. Bascom in Omanson 2001, p. 255)

See also may his name die out in the second generation for the same bowl metaphor.

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