Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

> Second question coming from the Ruth drafters:
> 
> Ruth 1:8, the last word.  We showed them in the lexicon where
> this word, (IMMFDIY, alternates with (IMMIY and has the same
> meaning.  But they asked if anyone can explain where the daleth
> comes from.

Both Gesenius and BDB suggest that it stems from an original 
(NDY, by analogy with Arabic `inda "beside".  I'm not so sure, I 
wonder if it's not a dialectical variation or some sort of "energic" 
form, but that's all I could find in the materials I have handy.  
Anybody else?

Dave Washburn
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