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  • From: "Chris and Nel" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] 1 Sam 1:28 -- Asked - Lent??
  • Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:18:50 +0100

1 Samuel 1:28 -- "I have lent him to the Lord .... He is lent to the Lord"

The first verb Perfect-Hiphil and the second verb Qal-Participle; I sat and I read and I thought and I looked up and I thought and I read again! I even read a complex synopsis of Hiphil and was left entirely in the dark about this. It beats me how we arrive at Lent from Asked/begged. What more can I say? The REAL issue for me is why not 'NaTaN'. A simple 'give' and be done with it.

And besides all this how can Gesenius and others say 'Lent'. This would imply that Hannah, at some stage, expects him back, but this was NOT the vow she prayed.

Am I not learning things correctly or what? I have just began an intermediate Hebrew book by Ehud Ben Zvi and he does not even mention this anomaly.

Regards
Chris.




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