Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Bob,
> What is the story behind the 'declension' of Salvation: in one case
> yod-shin-vav-ayin-taw (14:7) in the second case the ayin and vav are
> reversed and the u vowel is marked by qibbus without using the vav as mater
> and the final syllable has a holem with vav rather than a patah (with the
> ayin).
>
>  
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> Do these words both mean salvation? Why the taw as last letter? It doesn't
> seem to be a pronominal suffix.
>
>   
HH: Yes, they both mean "salvation." One is singular and the other is 
plural. It is the same basic word. In Hebrew there is an abstract 
plural, and that is what probably occurs in Ps. 53:6. Either that or the 
author thinks in terms of various acts of deliverance.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard