[b-hebrew] Someone knows?
Isaac Fried
if at math.bu.edu
Mon Apr 18 08:53:20 EDT 2011
Notice that in all these examples, to wit: qamtem, sartem, v'nastem,
(all, by the way, with a "delayed" dagesh in the T), the performer of
the act is also the receiver of the act. In HAMITEM of Nm. 17:6 the
perpetrators of the act MWT are MO$EH and AHARON, while its
"beneficiaries" are the people of Israel.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Apr 18, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Pere Porta wrote:
> Karl,
>
> In a first approach I think you may be right.
>
> 1. Concerning the form -------> we have parallels of your proposed
> (hamtem)
> form in
>
> a. Nm 32:14: qamtem
> b. Dt 9:16: sartem
> c. Zc 14:5: v'nastem
>
> 2. Concerning the meaning:
>
> Maybe we have here a construction similar (not identical!) to that
> in Dt
> 7:23 (v'hamam).
>
> But I find here a problem; Karl.
>
> In a context of death and destruction (see 16:35 and the preceding
> verses).... isn't it more logical the meaning "you killed" -namely,
> related to verb "MWT"- than any meaning related to verb HWM?
>
>
> Remark: the LXX writes "apektágkate", you killed: in the 3rd
> century b.C.E
> (2,300 years ago). they understood "HMTM" as being related to verb
> "MWT" and
> not to verb "HWM".
>
>
> Friendly,
>
> Pere Porta
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