Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Casanellas <pere.casanellas AT bcn.servicom.es>]

A. C. Smith wrote on 5/12/98:

>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"?

The same form (seventh word of Deut 10:12) appears in Exo 8:25, Lev 25:41,
Deut 10:12, Deut 15:12, Deut 15:13, Deut 15:16, Deut 15:18, Deut 23:22, 2Ki
2:9, Jer 34:14.

It has, of course, the sense that Paul Zellmer has explained.


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