Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>]

At 10:43 10/01/2005, Trevor Peterson wrote:

> but the Masoretes' system dictated that such things would generally appear 
> at the end of a speech division, which means in most cases they will 
> coincide with the atnach or silluq.

Trevor:
Back in May 2002, there was an interesting question, involving pausal 
forms, raised on this list, with reference to Song of Solomon 1:4 :

>>At 01:45 17/05/02, Steve Fontenot wrote:

"rejoice in you" (NASB) - NKJV says, "rejoice in you. Feminine singular,
that is, the Shulamite." NIV says, "delight in you; {The Hebrew is
masculine singular.}" Which is correct?  <<

 I explained  [ posting of May 17 ] :

>>however, whenever each of these subdivisions is longer than normal, 
supplementary marks ( accents ) are employed to make further breaks within 
the already broken segments. Song 1:4 is quite a long verse, and the < 
bak > in question has two vertical dots above the < b >. These dots are 
named "zakef qaton" and are the tip-off that this is a shortened form of < 
baka >.<<

I added: >>. So, rather than accusing the NKJV note-makers of eisegesis I 
should, I suppose, suggest that they hadn't got to the end of the grammar; 
I'm not sure that that's any kinder <g> <<

Regards,

Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
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