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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 55:5
  • Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:59:33 -0500

Steve Miller wrote:

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
MillerDetroit


HH: Steve, any good Hebrew grammar should discuss the concept of pausal forms. See Gesenius Kautch Cowley 29i-v, or check the index in Waltke and O'Connor.

The former understands pause as "the strong tress laid on the tone-syllable in the last word of a sentence (verse) or clause."

The latter define pause as "the break in Masoretic verse division associated with the end of a verse (marked with silluq and sof pasuq) or the middle of a verse (usually marked with athnach); a form in pause may show various phonological shifts, in accentuation or vacalization or both."
Yours,
Harold Holmyard







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