Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Stephen,
> At 07:04 PM 9/16/00 -0700, Dave Washburn wrote:
> >
> >> In Isaiah 9:7 the letter mem has occurred in the middle of word, but the 
> >> =
> >> form is final. Anybody have explications?
> >>
> >What edition are you looking at?  In my BHS, 9:7 doesn't have a
> >mem anywhere.
>
> Look at the first word of Is 9:6.  This is one of the places where the
> versification differs between the Hebrew bible and its English version.


Ah, OK.  It looks like a typo to me, but perhaps someone with
access to the facsimile edition of the Leningrad Codex can
enlighten us as to whether it's in the ms or not.
Dave Washburn
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