Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Paul Zellmer <zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph>]

Andrew C Smith wrote:

The fourth word in Deut 10:12 is

MEM-AYIN-MEM-CAPH = "from you"

cf. Weingreen's "Practical Grammar" pg. 63

That seems like an unusual spelling to me. Is it?

Or can this be read otherwise: "from your people"?

A.C. Smith

Andrew,

I take it you are referring to the seventh word of the verse which begins:

W:`aTTfH Yi&Rf'"L MfH YHWH 'e:LoHeYKf $o':L M"`iMMfK KiY 'iM-.....

From the Masoretic pointing, it would appear as if they took this as the preposition `iM (with) with the prefixed preposition MiN and the personal pronoun K.  A rough literal translation: "from with you."  This combination is permissible, but I would guess, if it is accurately pointed here, we are dealing with an idiom.

In an unpointed text, your suggestion of "from your people" would be possible, but one would expect the pointing of Sere Pathah Shewa and Kamets in the Kaph.

I agree that we do not have MiN with the suffix, as found on page 63 of Weingreen.

Paul
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