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ps 16:9

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: ps 16:9
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 08:44:13 -0500

{rolf wrote}
>In Psalm 16:9 we find the wayyiqtol form wayyfgel also with penultimate
>stress. The last form is formally jussive. {end quote}

no, the last form is formally vayyiqtol. and while the poet is having fun
with the verbs, the LXX preserved the literal reference layer here, as
oppossed to ps 2.1-2
shalom
randall.

ps 16:9, yochanan bitan, 12/10/1998