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Of the entries under qaran (pp.
The Septuagint translates qaran , in the passage of Exodus 34:29, with a Greek verb used in the New Testament to mean: “to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate; to honor, do honor to, hold in honor; to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendor; to make renowned, render illustrious, i.e., to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged; to exalt to a glorious rank or condition.
St. Jerome, translating from the Hebrew and referring to the Greek, while preparing the (Latin) Vulgate, evidently mistranslated the Hebrew qaran to shine, for qeren horn and went on record with cornuta , horned: Quod cornuta esset facies sua . Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable calls the translation “a blunder,” explaining that “the Hebrew for this shining may be translated either as `sent forth beams' or as `sent forth horns.