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re:Deut. 32:35d

From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: re:Deut. 32:35d
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 07:59:21 -0500

you have a good question:

dt 32.35d: veHash `atidot lamo "future judgments will come on them
quickly"

why plural form: `atidot ?

answers:
a. `atidot is a rare -ot singular. see prov 9.1 Hoxmot banta betah. "wisdom
built her house"
b. (ibn ezra1) 'each one of the future judgments will come...' [like ibn
ezra at gen 49.22]
c. (ibn ezra2) 'the [day] of the future judgments will come...'
d. all/none of the above.

braxot leshabbat shalom
randall buth

Deut. 32:35d, mjoseph, 02/11/1999
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