Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Joe, part of that is just getting to know the language and reading, reading, 
reading. After a while one just recognizes from the patterns which is which.

The interrogotive prefix occures only once in a question, at the beginning 
and never preceded by another prefix, the example you pointed to in Numbers 
has several questions.

The examples from 2 Samuel has the prefixes in the middle of sentences, 
therefore they cannot be questions.

Karl W. Randolph.

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From: "VALEDICTION" <info AT valediction.com>

> From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
> > HH: There are grammatical and stylistic reasons. The "H" on the beginning
> > of XZQ and RPH is an interrogative particle.
> 
> Follow-up question, Harold...
> How can one tell that the "H" is supposed to represent an interrogative
> particle in this case?  For instance, I read that the "H" can also signify
> the article "the".  How do you know when the "H" is indicating a question
> and when it is simply used as an article?
> 
> Case in point... the "H" is used on the beginning of RPH a number of times
> in 2 Samuel 21 (vv. 16, 18, 20, 22) where it is translated "the Rapha" (the
> weak one).  What is the distinction in this case?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Glean --junior member--
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