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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 50:4
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:41:56 -0800

אדני יהוה נתן לי לשון למודים לדעת לעות את יעף דבר יעיר בבקר בבקר יעיר לי אזן
לשמע כלמודים

Any ideas on what this means?

I suspect a copyist error here, that לעות should be לענת ( L(WT should be
L(NT ). If that were so, it would have been before the writing of the Great
Isaiah Scroll, it has the same as the MT consonantal text. The LXX seems to
indicate a different reading (or did they not understand it as well, and so
faked it?)

Or is it possible that we misunderstand the verb עות (WT ?

It’s been a few slow days, so maybe a good time to start a discussion.

Karl W. Randolph.



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