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  • From: "Ruthy & Baruch" <alster AT comandcom.com>
  • To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Prepositions with Berakh
  • Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 20:00:15 +0200



Jonathan wrote:
> Can anybody tell me (with perhaps a verse reference) which preposition
would be
> used in BH for "by" with the word berakh in a phrase such as "I bless you
by YHWH". I
> am looking at a paleo-Hebrew inscription here which has "brktk lyhwh" but
I would
> have expected something like "brktk byhwh" because I would think the
preposition
> would be "be-", such as in the phrase "diber YHWH behoshe'a" (Hos 1,2)
"Adonai
> spoke through/by Hosea"
>
> Am I detecting a difference in the language of my inscription and that of
classic BH?
> Or is "le-" used for "by" in BH too? If not with berakh, then perhaps
with other verbs?

The phrase brk le- Y-WH is used at least 7 times in the HB: Ju 17:2, 1Sam
15:13, 1Sam 23:21; 2Sam 2:5; Ps 115:15; Ru 2:20; Ru 3:10. Can this be the
phrase in your inscription?

Baruch Alster
Kochav Ya'akov, Israel





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