Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

Peter Kirk wrote:

> But perhaps if Isaiah knew only a little Aramaic he managed to put
> together a pseudo-Aramaic sentence with Aramaic words but Hebrew
> structure. I have seen sentences of this type on lists like this, from
> people whose English is not very good but they are able to choose
> correct English words. I'm not saying that this is the case with this
> verse as I have not looked at the passage in detail. But it is another
> possibility to be considered.

The word ")yk" is written "hyk" in Aramaic.
The word ng& has no counterpart in Aramaic.
The word mdhbh could be a place name and hence could easily
represent a different phonology than the rest of the sentence.
There is thus no reason to consider Aramaic influence.

Yitzhak Sapir
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