Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

kgraham0938 AT comcast.net wrote:

> KIY YFBO' $IYLOH
>
> Douglas Steward has an interesting take on this passage.  He suggest that 
> $IYLOH, may not be one word.  He says remove the vowels from Shiloh and 
> seperart the Shin/yod from the Lamed.
>
> He says that SY by itself means gifts, presents, or gifts.
Though I am somewhat sympathetic to hypothetical emendation, I think in 
order for it to have staying power, it has to be reflected textually 
somewhere.  That is, in one of the Hebrew ms or in one of the versions  
somewhere needs to translate accordingly.  I say this because if the 
word were differently divided in any textual tradition, translators 
would have seen it.  Is Steward's emendation present in any of the 
versions?  Not according to BHS (which only notes that some mss of the 
Sam. Pent. omit the yod).  Even the LXX's rendering maintains the unity 
of the syllables.

Best

Jim


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