Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Clay,

> Perhaps we should invert this question. What would cause the editors of the
> MT to split the word in two? 1QIsa(a) has lxprprym, Theodotian has parparwq
> (farfaroth) the LXX OG has tois mataiois, Aquila oruktais, Sym. akarmois.
> The LXX OG can be probably be safely ignored, the OG text of Isa. raises
> more problems than it solves. However Theodotian and 1QIsa(a) lend support
> to the single word reading. J.Oswalt (NICOT, Isa) suggests that the MT made
> a mistake by dividing a noun which was formed on a reduplicated pattern. I
> find this comment intriguing. Does Hebrew have reduplicated patterns? Greek
> of course has lots of reduplication but I wasn't aware that it was a common
> characteristic of Hebrew. Is it???

HH: Yes, reduplication is a feature of Hebrew. If you have GKC, check 
at 55d-g for verbs (of course) and 84b (k-p) for nouns.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard