Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bob MacDonald <bobmacdonald AT shaw.ca>]

Pere

Thanks

I have read about intensive plurals somewhere tonight - it just means that
the plural is an emphatic singular.

Thanks for the construct answer and the T/H hint for looking things up -

So Psalm 14 is construct singular; Psalm 53 is plural - also construct?

My first reading of construct seems to indicate that the second noun is in
construct form. In this verse of both Psalms, salvation is the first noun -
so I would have expected Israel to be in a construct form.

I will continue to ponder how salvation(s) could be associated with the
Psalm of Elohim (53) and how a singular construct could be associated with
the poem in which the LORD (14) is the subject of the Psalm.

(And I will read some more about construct)

Bob

Bob MacDonald
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