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RE: Psalm 51:5

From: "Lewis Reich" <lewreich AT javanet.com>
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: RE: Psalm 51:5
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:41:03 -0500

On 11 Jan 00, at 10:59, Bill Ross wrote:

> I have considered the genre and don't agree with your interpretation. What
> I was seeking was an evaluation of the Hebrew words themselves - that is
> the grammar.
>
> * What is the precise wording. "In sin" or "With sin"?

It seem to me that the Hebrew prepositional prefix *b'* doesn't allow that
distinction except by context, and sometimes it's simply indeterminate.

Lewis Reich

Psalm 51:5, Bill Ross, 01/10/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Psalm 51:5, Kevin W. Woodruff, 01/11/2000
- RE: Psalm 51:5, Bill Ross, 01/11/2000
- Re: Psalm 51:5, Ben Crick, 01/11/2000
- RE: Psalm 51:5, Steve.Thompson AT avondale.edu.au, 01/11/2000
- RE: Psalm 51:5, Lewis Reich, 01/11/2000
- Re[2]: Psalm 51:5, peter_kirk, 01/12/2000
- Re: Psalm 51:5, Ruthy & Baruch, 01/12/2000