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  • From: Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s AT rad.com>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Jeremiah 22:18
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:44:27 +0200

Karl

> by the time of Jeremiah (assuming that the Documentary Hypothesis is false),
> Hebrew writers consistently wrote the male, third person singular suffix
> with a waw, not a heh.

In Jeremiah there are a large number of variant spellings (which may be
simple scribal errors).

I am at a conference without a tanach in hand and so can not give you the
verse numbers,
but offhand I remember
V)YO instead of V)YH , &)Y which in some manuscripts is &)U
C(YRYHM spelled C(URYHM, TRMYT spelled TRMUT
HNYS instead of HNS, and dozens more.

> 2) the context seems to indicate that this is a person, not something like
> "his majesty"

That's why I mentioned the modern polite use of KBODO.
It refers to a person, although in third person.

Yaakov (J) Stein




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