let us swallow them alive like Sheol

The Hebrew in Proverbs 1:12 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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