Milʾ denotes the quantity needed to fill something, and miḥjam identifies a small vessel associated with cupping. With lam yuharīqū, lam negates the imperfect: the payers had not shed even this tiny amount of blood.
The poetic contrast is between two scales: the large hundreds in bi-l-miʾīn and the very small measure of milʾ miḥjam. The contrast reinforces the idea that the peacemakers’ families accepted a heavy financial burden even though they themselves had not caused the bloodshed.
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Milʾ denotes the quantity needed to fill something, and miḥjam identifies a small vessel associated with cupping. With lam yuharīqū, lam negates the imperfect: the payers had not shed even this tiny amount of blood.
The poetic contrast is between two scales: the large hundreds in bi-l-miʾīn and the very small measure of milʾ miḥjam. The contrast reinforces the idea that the peacemakers’ families accepted a heavy financial burden even though they themselves had not caused the bloodshed.