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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "SCOTT, PETER" <peter.scott AT bell.ca>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] )BYNW $B$MYM
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:14:47 -0700

On 26/08/2003 12:26, SCOTT, PETER wrote:

I have been reading:

Joachim Jeremias. "Abba." The Prayers of Jesus. Philadelphia:
Fortress Press. 1978. Pp. 11-65.

Jeremias sites the phrases )BYNW $B$MYM in Note 8 (p 16) and )BY $B$MYM
on p 22 and in Note 41 (p 22) and other places.

$B$MYM is identifed as Hebrew and translated as "who lives in heaven".

Is the perfix $B a form of Y$B? What is the nature of the construction?

No. $- is a version of the relative pronoun, perhaps a contraction of 'asher, which is found but only rarely and mostly in late books in the Hebrew Bible but is common in later Hebrew including modern Hebrew. So here we have $- "who [is]" and B- "in" together. Not sure where Jeremias gets "lives" from.


In Note 16 (p 17) is the phrase DB$MY) quoted from a prayer. What is
the prefix DB?

This one is probably Aramaic, hence the final alef. D- is a shortened form of DIY which is the regular Aramaic relative pronoun, and B- is again "in".


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