Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Jack,

> In Lev 21:18 there is a list of men who may not approach
> Yahweh.  One of them is XRM with a qamets beneath the X and
> a qibbuts beneath the R (let us say - kharum).  Is this the
> qal masculine singular passive participle of XRM?   Are the
> quibbuts and the shureq interchangeable for the qal
> passive participle?  Are there other cases where this is
> so?

HH: It's believed to be a different word in Hebrew, from a different 
root having to do with what is split, pierced, or slit.

                                        Yours,
                                        Harold Holmyard