Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Chris,

> In contrast to Numbers 6:26 where exactly the same intention is meant we
> have in Psalm 4:7 the only occurence of the word 'lift up' conveyed through
> the same word that means 'to prove, examine, test. ie nun-samech-heh instead
> of the expected nun-shin-alef.

HH: Delitzsch thought it was a mixture of nun-sin-alef with 
nun-samech-samech with the idea that the light was a banner promising 
victory and serving as a rallying point for the people. A simpler 
idea is that it is a spelling variant, the tact taken by two 
lexicons. There are a considerable number of such spelling variants 
in the OT, but not usually with two adjacent letters.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard