Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 12/07/2006 01:36, MarjorieAlley AT cs.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/10/2006 12:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> joel AT stucki.ws writes:
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>
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> > So as not be hippocritical here are some examples of this exact vowel
> > pattern used with nouns and a lamed prefix:
> >
> > Deut 28:37
> > 1Sam 10:12
> > 1Kings 9:7
> > Ps 49:5
> > Ps 69:12
> > 2Chr 7:20
> > Hab 1:9
> >
> > This exact noun and vowel pattern occurs also
> > Num 22:32 Almost same phrasing
> > 1 Sam 29:4
> > 2 Sam 19:23
> >
> > The Samuel references seem extremely clear that they are nouns.
> >
> >
> >     
>
> Joel ---
>
> Thanks for posting the examples. I am really curious about how you managed to 
> find the ones in the first list. 
>
> The ones in the second list are easily found with a concordance (I looked in 
> Even-Shoshan) or a Bible software search engine (I used Logos).
>
> But how did you manage to find the first ones? I am impressed <s>!
>
>   
Using Paratext (a tool available only to Bible translators), I was able 
to find the following, which if I have got it correct is an exhaustive 
list of 65 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible of prefix L- with a word with 
the pattern ?A?A?, where A represents qamats. I have excluded cases 
where the final letter is he or yod as this is a much more common 
pattern. I have not checked that all of the words are nouns. Many of 
them are proper names e.g. Laban, Tamar, Dathan, Balak, Barak, Nabal, 
Nathan, Haman.

GEN 2:24; 29:13,16; 30:42; 31:22,31,36; 38:11,13; EXO 4:3; 7:15; 8:6,19; 
LEV 13:16,17; NUM 11:18; 16:12; 22:22,32; 23:3,9; DEU 11:6; 28:13,37,44; 
JOS 7:13; JDG 4:6; 1SA 10:12; 25:34; 29:4; 2SA 19:23; 1KI 1:32; 9:7; 2CH 
7:20; 21:3; 32:27; EZR 8:16; EST 3:2,4,10,11; 5:12; 6:10; JOB 5:22; PSA 
4:9; 40:11; 49:5; 69:12; 141:4; PRO 17:7; SNG 7:8; ISA 32:5; JER 21:9; 
24:9; 27:20; 38:2; 39:18; 45:5; 49:32; 50:10; EZK 7:21; 11:11; 21:20; 
MIC 7:14; HAB 1:9

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