Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>]

In my opinion all difficulties go away when we take the hif(il of Z(Q
as a denominative of Z(QH ze`aqa, so litt. "to utter a cry". This
happens in other hif`ils too.
Herman

2005/11/27, Steve Miller <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>:
> >
> >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
>
>
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