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  • From: Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Psalm 65:2
  • Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:02:20 -0600

(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."




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