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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Job 13:15
  • Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 06:24:27 -0700


Lance,
> The very same situation occurs in Isaiah 49:5 and I looked at some
> pictures of the Dead Sea Scrolls to see how that rendered it. It had the
> possessive, but, while doing so, I noticed that the negative was spelled
> Lamed-Vav-Aleph (verse 10). I'd never seen it spelled like that before, can
> any Scroll Scholars help with an explanation?

It's a plene spelling, with the vav serving as a vowel. This kind of
spelling abounds in the scrolls.


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis




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