Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

The only real problem passage I found was his treatment of Isa 6:8, 
where he failed to notice the apparent synonymous parallelism 
between "whom shall I send?" and "who will go for us?"  It seems to 
me that the parallelism shoots down the idea that God is talking to 
angelic beings or someone else in these clauses.

> I have just read this from http://www.clc.edu/askdr/Archive/elohim.htm.
> Yes, to me this is basically sound, though I would want to be more
> careful re Psalm 45:6.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Schmuel [mailto:schmuel AT bigfoot.com]
> > Sent: 29 January 2002 19:04
> > To: Biblical Hebrew
> > Subject: Elohim plurality
> > 
> > Shalom b-Hebrew
> > 
> > Schmuel quoting Daniel Segraves..
> > > >   Elohim is a masculine plural noun. Eloah, the singular form of
> the
> > >word, > appears 54 times and is also used in reference to both the
> true
> > God
> > >and to > false gods. Eloah is from the Hebrew El, which appears 226
> > times.  El
> > > > signifies strength and power. >  <snip>
> > 
> > Peter Kirk,
> > >Well, 'EL may be a contracted form of 'ELOAH  (though hardly vice
> versa)
> > >or otherwise derived from the root 'LH; or it may be derived from the
> > >root 'YL meaning "strength, power", as in 'AYIL "ram", "leader". But
> I
> > >don't see how both of these can be true at the same time. BDB has a
> > >summary of some options (pp.41-42), but a lot of this is pure
> > speculation.
> >
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> --
> > -------------------------
> > Hi Peter,
> > 
> > Ptting aside the relationship between the forms..
> > 
> > Do you find Daniel's Segrave's discussion of Elohim and plurality
> > basically
> > sound..... ?
> > 
> > It is the only such fairly complete grammar discussion that I have
> > found on the Net  :-)
> > 
> > Schmuel AT bigfoot.com
> > 
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Dave Washburn
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This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do 
with it.
                  -Emerson