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  • From: unikom AT paco.net
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 53: In his death?
  • Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 08:44:33 +0300 (EEST)

Dear Schmuel,

I already replied re.Ezek., and in Jeremiah "they die the deaths" - of
course, plural. Your example of Adam, mot tamut, is irrelevant - it is
singular.
It's plain ludicrous (since you're citing others, I don't mean to offend
you by that) to compare motei to hayim (itself the word of highly debated
morphology), since motei refers to completed act - accentuated in Is53 by
the past tense of "he gave." Hayim is always is dual (not plural!), while
mot is sing.

>Motay is a plur. exaggerativus here, as in Ezekiel xxviii. 10 (compare
memothe in Ezekiel xxviii 8 and Jer. xvi. 4); it is applied to a violent
death, the very pain of which makes it like dying again and again<


Best regards,

Vadim Cherny




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