Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

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