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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ezekiel 38:2f.; 39:1
  • Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:01:50 -0600

Dear Christopher,

Num 10:4 HANN:&IY)IYM RF)$"Y )LP"Y YI&RF)"L
Num 36:1 HANN:&IY)IYM RF)$"Y )FBWT LIBN"Y YI&RF)"L
Ezk 38:2 N:&IY) RO)$ ME$EK W:TUBFL
(Ezk 38:3 and 39:1 are the same as 38:2)

Those look syntactically parallel to me. Also the Masoretic accentuation,
for whatever it's worth, divides these phrases _the same way_. In each of
the five cases of N&Y) + RO)$, the Masoretes accent N&Y) with zaqef (zaqef
qatan in Num, zaqef gadol in Ezek), thus marking N&Y) as the end of a
phrase. I can't really see any syntactical distinctiveness of Num 10:4; 36:1
over against Ezk 38:2, 3; 39:1. The syntax looks analogous to me.

As I suggested in my long post of 12/25, RO)$ and N&Y) seem to be appositive
in each of the 5 cases where they appear side-by-side.

HH: The words in Ezekiel don't have to function as they do in Numbers. It seems to me that an accentual question in Ezekiel is how the following tiphha on R)$ is functioning. If it is the main divider of the athnach or silluq section, as I believe is normal, then it would conclude the phrase. The HCSB recently handled R)$ here as adjectival:

Ezek 38:2: Son of man, turn your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard




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