Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Ian Goldsmith <iangoldsmith1969 AT yahoo.co.uk>]

I'm curious too. Why the 'ay' suffix?
Isn't 'B:(OZ:RAY','with my helper'? Why not an 'iy'
suffix? Is it just because the subject is the LORD?

Many thanks.
Ian.

         --- Tony Larsson <tony.larsson AT cling.gu.se>
wrote: > Dear scholars,
> 
> 
> Reading Ps 118, I found a word that mystified me. It
> says in verse 7:
> 
> YHWH       LI           B:(OZ:RAY        (BHS)
> Kurios     emoi         bohqos           (LXX)
> The Lord   is with me,  he is my helper  (NIV)
> 
> Now, what is the meaning of the B:(OZ:RAY compound?
> The KJV takes it as
> "The LORD taketh my part with them that help me",
> with B as "among" and
> the AY as a plural of people. 
> 
> But other translations, both modern and the
> venerable LXX, apparently
> understands the AY to be some kind of majestic
> plural of the participle
> (OZ"R, and then perhaps the B could mean something
> like "in the function
> of" - or am I mistaken? Does the word signify that
> the Lord is the
> psalmist's helper, or that he fills the position as
> his "help", an
> abstract noun like "salvation"?
> 
> 
> Grateful if you could be (OZ:RAY... :-)
> 
> Tony Larsson
> 
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=====
Ian Goldsmith.
England.

Dibrah Torah kilshone bnei-adam
'The Torah spoke in the language of ordinary men.'
Berakot 31b

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