Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

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>HH: "To cause me to hear a call for help" might be "to cry out to me."
>
SM: Why would the angel, who speaks as God, call desperately for Zechariah's
help?


HH: You are not consistent with the usage of the 
verb elsehwhere. I have two other lexicons, which 
also agree with HALOT, BDB and DCH (Dictionary of 
Classical Hebrew)..

SM: The qal verb Z`Q always means to cry for help. The niphal always means
to be gathered together for an emergency. The hiphil has 2 meanings: to call
together for an emergency (exactly the active form of the niphal) or to
cause to cry out for help. Where is the inconsistency?

>HH:"He caused me to hear a cry."
>

SM: Why is the angel crying for help?


>HH: This could be equivalent to "He summoned" 
>me, as Kelton said, or "He implored me," 
>"alerted me," "signaled me." 

SM: For what emergency is the angel summoning Zechariah? Implored, alerted
and signaled seem to be getting farther away from the meaning of Z`Q.

The more I study Z`Q and Zech 6, the more I think that "and it [or he]
caused me to cry out." Is the only way to translate the beginning of Zech
6:8.

-Steve Miller
Detroit