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["Fred Putnam" <fputnam AT biblical.edu>]

Ian,

I'm not sure that there is an affixual issue here, since the form is 3ms qal 
imperfect (traditionally jussive here) of a triradical root (ayin-resh-bet).

The only cognate or etymological information that I can uncover is a putative 
link to Hadramatic Arabic 'aru/ib; every reference cites Ben-H. Leshonenenu 
44 (1980):85ff. Neither the lexica nor any commentators available to me 
follow Dahood's identification of this text with UT, 125:11-12, 'l abh y'rb 
("He 
enters his father's presence"--so Dahood); he implies that 'rb, "to please" 
requires the preposition l (as it has elsewhere in BH).

But perhaps I'm missing the point of your question.

Best wishes,
Fred Putnam

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B-HEBREW Digest for Monday, September 17, 2001.

1. further to Psalm 104:34a

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Subject: further to Psalm 104:34a
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?ian=20goldsmith?= 
<iangoldsmith1969 AT yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:31:24 +0100 (BST)
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Further to my previous e-mail regarding this Psalm.
If 'yerev' is to mean 'sweet'- being drawn from 'yar'?
Why does it end with the 'bet'?
There is a prefix/suffix issue with this word that I'm
having some difficulty finding any material on. Any
help with the grammar would be much appreciated.
The KJV gives the rendering 'sweet', and if it is
indeed drawn from honeycomb,as Gesenius suggests, then
I rather like the image, but can someone please
clarify the suffix for me.
Many thanks.
Ian.

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