Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Paul wrote:
> In Rolf's last response to Dave concerning the form of the weqatal, he
> spoke of the WEHAYF in 1 Sam 10:7 and 10:9.  I assume he was referring
> to the first words in each verse, which our "suggested" transliteration
> scheme would spell as W:HFYFH, the weqatal form of HYH.  My question
> concerns the one found in verse ten.
> 
> Why is it W:HFYFH here instead of WAY(Y)IHIY?  I see the variant noted
> in the BHS, but isn't this form unusual enough to expect a qathib/qere?
> Or is it so obvious that the corrected reading need not be noted?

I don't know.  But I agree it's quite unusual, and in my own text-
critical work I would probably lean toward the variant.

Regarding this:
> On July 20:
>   1881  Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to federal troops
>   1960  USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
>   1969  1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
>   1976  US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian
> landing

Yep.  As an amateur astronomer, I'm more than a little pleased 
that so many major space-related events happened on my birthday 
:-)
Dave Washburn
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