Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jerry Shepherd" <jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca>]

Dr. Jerry E. Shepherd
Associate Professor of Old Testament
Taylor Seminary
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Shepherd 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:54 PM
To: 'Steve Miller'
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 55:5

 

Hi Steve,

 

Thanks for the info.  Like I said, this makes more sense to me.  “Pausal” 
means that the word in question is accented with one of the two or three 
major pausal accents in the accentuation system.  These accents are either 
the atnach, usually at the logical halfway point of the verse, the silluq, 
the last word in a verse, or one or two other major accents that can have the 
same effect.  Being in pause can cause several changes, among them, making 
2ms suffixes look like 2fs suffixes, causing short vowels to become long, 
causing a seghol vowel to change to a qamets, etc.  The change, however, has 
no semantic effect.

 

Jerry

 

Dr. Jerry E. Shepherd

Associate Professor of Old Testament

Taylor Seminary

11525 - 23 Avenue

Edmonton, AB T6J 4T3

CANADA

Office: (780)431-5250

Home: (780)434-1164

Fax: (780)436-9416

Email: jerry.shepherd AT taylor-edu.ca

Internet: http://www.taylor-edu.ca 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Miller [mailto:smille10 AT sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 1:48 PM
To: Jerry Shepherd
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 55:5

 

> Jerry Shepherd Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:29 PM

> (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 (§61i, [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?

> 

John J. Owens' Analytical Key to the OT says the suffix of פֵאֲרָֽךְ in Isa.

55:5 is 2ms pausal. Could someone explain to me, what does "pausal" mean?

Thanks!

-Steve Miller

Detroit