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  • From: "Herman Meester" <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 55:5
  • Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 21:54:32 +0200

2006/4/4, Jerry Shepherd <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>:
> (1) Watts, in his commentary in the Word series, (Isaiah 34-66, pp. 241,
> 246; I don't have access to the 2d edition) says that the last word in Isa
> 55:5 has a 2fs suffix. My older Logos version, as well as Accordance (a
> student checked for me) have it as 2fs also. However, if I am reading
> Jouon-Muraoka correctly (ยง61i, [vol. 1, p. 173]), it is identified there as
> 2ms. It seems more likely to me that this latter is correct and that the
> suffix is simply in pause. Anything I am missing?

No, you're not; if the three preceding suffixes are masculine, why
would the fourth be feminine? The fact that Logos has it as 2fs too, I
think, is because software doesn't think ;)

Regards,
Herman Meester, Rotterdam (Netherlands)




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