Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lisbeth S. Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>]

Dear Steve, Harold, et. al.
Sorry. I read the list of examples, I did not read your comments.
I don't agree that there is such a thing as an "intensive" plural
with nouns. I think the preferred reading is bamotav, his
sepulcher, or emend the text to the singular.
You object to emending the text, yet you willingly emend
 )et to )it, with. The Greek puts "the wicked" in the 
accusative case. The Greek has "He will give the wicked instead
of his grave."  I agree with Vadim that the Hebrew is past tense,
but I don't know how to put "the wicked" in the accusative.
He put the wicked (in) his grave?
Liz Fried
A2
> 
> 
> Hi b-hebrew,
> 
> >Dear Harold,
> >Steve showed evidence of translation of "death" or
> >"tomb." He did not show evidence of "intensive plurals."
> >Best, Liz Fried A2
> 
> Hi Liz,
> 
>    If you reread the original post, I think you will see a lot of 
> references, most especially from the Hebrew grammar and from the 
> rabbinical expositors, to the "intensive plural" and various 
> other related (non-numerical) plural forms...  This included 
> about a half-dozen rabbinical expositors.... 
> 
>    The death/tomb question most especially comes up in the DSS, 
> and you had been of special assistance on that one, so I had 
> quoted you when I did the series :-)
> 
> Shalom,
> Steven Avery
> Queens, NY
>