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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] agent or patient in Psa. 33:12?
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:03:13 -0500

Dear Liz,

The object chosen is usually in a prepositional
phrase headed by the preposition B-.
bHr takes bet-
Therefore rather than lw, you'd expect bw if God were
the object of the choosing.
Lw refers back to the subject, it is "for himself."
However, in that case, I don't understand why Ha'am isn't preceded
by B-.

HH: It is a relative clause that lacks the relative pronoun, the relative pronoun being understood: "the people that (asher) He chose."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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