Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

B-Hebrew chaberim:

The usual translation of the final phrase of Psalm 40:7 is 
"burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not ask for" or 
something better in English than this. However, there are 
some linguistic questions that put a little doubt on that 
translation.

First, I noticed that X+)H has a different meaning in all 
other of its uses. While this could be a typo (copiest 
error) for X+)T, in which case it would fit, the usual 
meaning for X+)H is, in theological terms, "sinfulness".

Secondly, (WLH is found in Tanakh from two different 
roots: one from (WL  [hard waw] meaning injustice, 
often in the judicial sense; the other from (LH as a 
varient spelling for burnt offering.

Hence the phrase could read "you have not asked for 
injustice and sinfulness".

What think ye?

This is something that I just noticed, as I was looking 
at something else.

Karl W. Randolph.

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