Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

hi Peter, you wrote:

> In fact Samuel's Hebrew is not bad, or even idiosyncratic and unusually
> abrupt. It is good Hebrew, which needs to be appreciated for what it is
> and for being syntactically different from English. I chose one example
> of a common idiom, see also Gen 27:45, 1 Sam 20:12,31, 2 Kings 6:13,
> 7:13, Ezra 4:14, Job 1:4,5, Jer 43:10 - from a search of the NRSV for
> "send and". For more examples of this Hebrew idiom, see the article
> "Send!" by John Ellington in The Bible Translator, Vol. 45 No. 2 (April,
> 1994): 228-238 - this should be available online at
> http://rosetta.reltech.org/TBT/CD3/TBT.html. Ellington writes:
>

It seems to me that $LX sometimes means "dispatch." It is used relatively
few times (+/- 2% of the total uses) without an object when it means
dispatch and the existence of an object (in the role of messenger) may be
bound up in the idea of dispatching (someone).

Shalom,
Bryan

B. M. Rocine
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