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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net" <pporta AT oham.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 2 Ki 2:10
  • Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:49:24 -0500

Pere.

Remember I said U and I are gender neutral. They are used interchangeably for variation, with no regard to gender. I make the substitutions U=HU and I=HI just for elucidation, to recall the stand- alone personal pronouns. The personal pronouns HU and HI are by themselves compounds: HU=H+U, and HI=H+I. The word in Isa. 54:11 is NUXAMAH=N+(H)U+XAMA+H from the root NXM, where the U (=HU) is for BAT ZION (as mentioned in 1:8) and the last H (=HI) is for the gender.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 22, 2007, at 2:14 PM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:

I have said it before, I will say it again.
In my opinion the Hebrew vowels U, I are the personal pronouns HU,
HI, independent of gender. The vowel A is just a puff of air. The
ancient Semites did not waste vowels for nothing. Thus LUQAX is L+HU
+QAX, where HU is Elijah. This is the grammar. The rest is being
understood contextually. Saying that LUQAX is PUAL is the same as
saying that PUAL is LUQAX. Nothing is gained thereby.

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Then.... in the word NUXFMFH (1), she was consoled (Isa 54:11) ----- how do you understand and explain that vowel U is HU?


1) F = qamats

Pere Porta




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