Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com> wrote: 
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2) I am not sure that any other Semitic language has both Haphel and Hiphil.
Rather, it seems to me that Haphel and Hiphil have an H where the Semitic
language 

  In Arabic it is the causative verbal form (Binyan)  )f(l  , Afal,  with 
Alif in the perfect tense where Heb. has the He, that serves ther function of 
the Hiiphil.

     Uri



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Subject: [b-hebrew] Job 38:12 hmymyk vs. hmmk
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Dhorme opens his comments on Job 38:12 with the statement that the LXX (OG)
h epi sou does not represent hmmk rather than hmymyk. Just for the sake of
exploration lets assume Dhorme is wrong. What sense could be made of this
text if hmmk is read?

The expression epi sou is used in the LXX as an adverbial of location to
indicate "in personal presence of someone" which would suggest in this
passage something like "Was it in your presence that I appointed the morning
light ... " or more idiomatically "Were you around when ... " and so forth.

But setting the LXX asside, how would reading hmmk impact the understanding
of Job 38:12? 
  

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew