Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joel Stucki" <joel AT stucki.ws>]

On 7/12/06, MarjorieAlley AT cs.com <MarjorieAlley AT cs.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 7/12/2006 7:19:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, peter AT qaya.org
> writes:
>
> 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.
Someone might suggest that proper names are nouns :)
Thanks for the list and the regex.

Joel Stucki