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  • From: Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>
  • To: MarjorieAlley AT cs.com
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, joel AT stucki.ws
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Numbers 22:22 - S+N a verb or noun?
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:19:37 +0100

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:


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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Peter Kirk
E-mail: peter AT qaya.org
Blog: http://speakertruth.blogspot.com/
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