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Psalm 22:16 — What Changed in the Bible Text

Manuscript variant · disputed

What the source readslike a lion (Hebrew kāʾărî) are my hands and my feet

What this version readsthey pierced (Greek ṓryxan) my hands and my feet

One letter — כארי ('like a lion') against כארו ('they dug / pierced'). The Masoretic Hebrew and the Greek/Syriac traditions part here; the Septuagint, the Peshitta and the KJV read 'pierced', and a Dead Sea Psalms scroll leans the same way. A genuine manuscript variant with immense Christological weight — logged, not resolved.

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