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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: "Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ps 90:8 (alumenu
  • Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:26:33 -0500

Reinhard:

Look at the context. In this verse it is being used as a substantive, like a
noun. It is referring to the unknown things, the things that we want to keep
hidden and unknown from others. The Qal passive participle fulfills this roll.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: lehmann <lehmann AT uni-mainz.de>

> Dear colleages,
>
> can anyone explain me the traditional parsing of (alumenu Ps 90:8 as a
> Qal passive participle? The verb does not have any Qal forms
> at all, and, in my opinion, it seems to be much easier to explain it as
> an adjective
> like (acum "strong" or (arûm "clever".
>
> Reinhard G. Lehmann, Mainz
>
>
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