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  • From: Moshe Shulman <mshulman AT ix.netcom.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: 22nd Psalm - Verb Object Again
  • Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 05:48:58 -0500

At 02:24 AM 12/5/2003 -0800, you wrote:
On 04/12/2003 17:58, Karl Randolph wrote:
Peter:
Does the DSS have a K)RW or KRW, a medial Alep or not? It is my impression that a medial Alep is seldom dropped, which would indicate to me that we have a hapax legomenon here. If DSS omit the midial Alep, then we are dealing with KRH.
Karl W. Randolph.
The only DSS reading I know of is from the Nahal Hever fragment shown in http://www.torahresource.com/Newsletter/Ps22.16.pdf, which reads kaf - alef - resh - vav. I agree with you that this implies some kind of hapax, but K)R might be a variant of KRH. It seems likely that this was an original biliteral root KR which became triliteralised in various more or less synonymous ways e.g. KRH, KWR (which BDB gives as the root of M:KORAH and M:KERAH) and perhaps also K)R. Compare DKK = DWK = DK) = DKH.

The reading is K)RW, and this has some serious difficulties with it, since the aleph makes it a poor conjugation for the verb KRH. I have always considered this another example of poor writing skills, and the correct reading should be K)RY, the last letter being an elongated yod, a very common situation in the DSS. Otherwise we have a verb without a root.





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