Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

(English 65:1)
I'm wondering about the word DUMIY.FH, "silence," here as rendered in the MT. 
 
The LXX reads PREPEI, "is fitting," which according to BHS and a couple of 
others works out to a Hebrew DOMIY.FH, but I haven't been able to find much 
info on this purported word.  I'm wondering whether the idea of silence in 
praise has merit; one commentary I read said that "silence" and "praise" are 
mutually exclusive terms but I'm not so sure.  I'm wondering what everyone's 
thoughts are on this passage: info on the word that supposedly underlies the 
LXX, whether silence and praise really were mutually exclusive in the mind of 
the writer of this psalm, and any other thoughts that you folks might have 
that haven't occurred to me.

One idea that springs to mind as I type is that perhaps the poetic structure 
of the line led to omitting a conjunction; that is, perhaps the first 3 words 
might be rendered "to you are [both] silence [and] praise."  But that's just 
thinking out loud.

Opinions?
-- 
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"God does a lot of things in the Psalms
that He can't get away with in systematic theology."