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  • From: "Peter Kirk" <Peter_Kirk AT sil.org>
  • To: "'Biblical Hebrew'" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Psalm 73:1
  • Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 23:04:16 +0100


No, there is no Elohim at the start of the verse. In MT there is only
one word for God, right in the middle. LXX is a very literal translation
of MT here (not sure what it's "wn" is though).

Peter Kirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Ross [mailto:wross AT farmerstel.com]
> Sent: 12 April 2002 16:03
> To: Biblical Hebrew
> Subject: RE: Psalm 73:1
>
> <Peter>
> >>"Surely good to [the] upright [is] El,
> Elohim to [the] clean-ones [of] heart".
>
> <Bill>
> How strained is that reading? Is it "very comfortable?"
>
> Doesn't Elohim appear at the beginning of the sentence as well?:
>
> ie: "Surely Elohim is good to [the] upright of El,
> Elohim to [the] clean-ones [of] heart".
>
> LXX has Israel:
>
> Psalms 73:1 (72:1) qalmov tw asaf wv agayov tw israhl o yeov toiv
euyesi
> th
> kardia
>
> Bill Ross
>
>
>
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