Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Dave,

>>      Compare Jer 44:23, which also uses MIP.:N"Y YHWH )A:$ER.

>Compare how?  This is the structure I would expect, as opposed to what's
>in Ex 19:18.  My question is, how to account for the odd structure that
>seems to split the )A:$ER clause in two with the intervening YHWH?

When I asked you to compare Jer 44:23, I simply took the Hebrew words above
from your original post. But in Exod 19:18 there is no divine name between
the MIP.:N"Y and the  )A:$ER. Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or did you
misread Exod 19:18? It just means: "And Mt. Sinai was smoke, all of it,
because ("because of that") the Lord came down upon it in fire . . . ."

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard