The horse was lamed on a rock.
Economic distress increased the number of highway robberies, these in turn lamed commercial intercourse.
In a few verses the "wrestling" ('-b -k) of Jacob (ya'agob) is associated with the Jabbok ()labboq); his "striving" explains his name Israel; at Peniel he sees "the face of God," and when touched on his vulnerable spot - the hollow of the thigh - he is lamed, hence "the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day" (xxxii.
G.R. Driver suggests that lz)z( may have been derived from the Arabic 'azâzu(n) 'rough ground' to which a formative lamed was added 5.
Lamed, Literature of American History (Boston, 1902), and useful lists in Ropes, op. cit., and in the Cambridge Modern History, vol.
