Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Wednesday 17 August 2005 13:48, Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 17/08/2005 18:44, Dave Washburn wrote:
> > ...
> >
> >>I accept that Hebrew sentences can be verbless without being
> >>ungrammatical. But what looks ungrammatical here is the absence or
> >>elision of the personal suffix HINNEH. But re Gen 18:9 BDB mentions "the
> >>suffix ... being not infrequently omitted". So perhaps this is not the
> >>best example - it was simply the first possible one that I found.
> >
> >Ugh.  My BDB - along with all my other books - is packed.  What suffix do
> > you mean?
>
> The personal suffix. In other words, here we don't have HINNEHA or
> HINNEH HI', "here she is", but just HINNEH, "here is ..."

Okay, I see what you mean.  Thanks.  With all my books packed up, I have to 
go 
by the LTMLV.

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Dave Washburn
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