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  • From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
  • To: "'Harold Holmyard'" <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Object of "lamo" in Isaiah 53
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:00:12 -0400

> From: Harold Holmyard
>
> Dear Karl,
> > I used to think that the -MW suffix always referred to the third
> > person indefinite number, but when I was recently analyzing Job 40:4,
> > I came to the realization that the subject of the -MW suffix was Job
> > himself, in the first person. Now I'll have to go back and see if this
> > is the only usage that is not third person, or if there are others as
> > well. This is a new assignment for me.
> >
>
> Job 40:4 is a bit different because the -MW suffix has no pronominal
> value. LMW is functioning as a poetic alternative for the preposition L.
> It is a frequent usage, appearing 55 times according to BDB.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>

[Steve Miller] Harold, LMW is used 59 times in the Tanach. How could it be
used 55 times with no pronoun meaning? Job 40:4 looks like the only one
where most translators skip the pronoun meaning.
Thanks,
-Steve Miller
Detroit
www.voiceInWilderness.info





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