Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

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From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 9:39 PM
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Proverbs 17:8


> I agree Yigal with the first half of your comment, but why the letter
'Heh'
> in front of 'SHoCHaD' why not the kaf,

Because "bribe" is the subject of the verse: "[Like] a precious stone [is] a
bribe in the eyes of its possessor."


and surely the emphasis is about the
> bribe prospering which I find extrordinarily peculiar.
>
I think it's meant with irony - he only thinks that he can prosper from his
"precious stone".

Yigal