Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

    Your grammatical questions:

    1. Shwuatekh hazeh, $B)TK  HZH ,is indeed a mistake

 of an an ancient scribe since the modifier should

 have been in the F. as you noted.

    2.  Hishbatanu, H$B(TNW ,is correct. Two

men are addressing a female: F single form in

the Hiphil perfect, plus the attached pronominal

 suffix for plural.

   Uri Hurwitz  

 

Dear B-Hebrew,    Last night I read a couple of chapters of Joshua for 
leisure, and  there are a couple of things that I noticed that I wanted to 
ask  about:    (1) Although $BW(H /shevu'ah/ [ùáåòä] is feminine, it is 
modified with  the masculine ZH /zeh/ [æä] in 2:17:    ðÀ÷ÄéÌÄí àÂðÇçÀðåÌ 
îÄùÌÑÀáËòÈúÅêÀ äÇæÌÆä àÂùÑÆø äÄùÑÀáÌÇòÀúÌÈðåÌ  NQYM )NXNW M$B(TK HZH )$R 
H$B(TNW    Come to think of it, why is H$B(tnW masculine, when it is talking 
about Rahab?    (2) Is there any reason why the NIV footnote says that the 
word ZWNH  /zonah/ [æåðä] can be translated as "innkeeper"?    Thanks,  Jason 
 

 
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B-Hebrew LISTIM,

HI$BA(TANU consists of the root SB(, 'swear', and the three attached =20
personal pronouns HI, AT, ANU for the contextually obvious actors. =20
Every Hebrew word is but a root plus personal pronouns. Using the =20
term 'hiphil' is a redundancy.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 30, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jason Hare wrote:

> Dear B-Hebrew,
>
> Last night I read a couple of chapters of Joshua for leisure, and
> there are a couple of things that I noticed that I wanted to ask
> about:
>
> (1) Although $BW(H /shevu'ah/ [=D7=A9=D7=91=D7=95=D7=A2=D7=94] is =
feminine, it is =20
> modified with
> the masculine ZH /zeh/ [=D7=96=D7=94] in 2:17:
>
> =D7=A0=D6=B0=D7=A7=D6=B4=D7=99=D6=BC=D6=B4=D7=9D =D7=90=D6=B2=D7=A0=D6=B7=
=D7=97=D6=B0=D7=A0=D7=95=D6=BC =D7=9E=D6=B4=D7=A9=D6=BC=D7=81=D6=B0=D7=91=D6=
=BB=D7=A2=D6=B8=D7=AA=D6=B5=D7=9A=D6=B0 =20
> =D7=94=D6=B7=D7=96=D6=BC=D6=B6=D7=94 =D7=90=D6=B2=D7=A9=D7=81=D6=B6=D7=A8=
 =D7=94=D6=B4=D7=A9=D7=81=D6=B0=D7=91=D6=BC=D6=B7=D7=A2=D6=B0=D7=AA=D6=BC=D6=
=B8=D7=A0=D7=95=D6=BC
> NQYM )NXNW M$B(TK HZH )$R H$B(TNW
>
> Come to think of it, why is H$B(TNW masculine, when it is talking =20
> about Rahab?
>
> (2) Is there any reason why the NIV footnote says that the word ZWNH
> /zonah/ [=D7=96=D7=95=D7=A0=D7=94] can be translated as "innkeeper"?
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
> Joplin, MO > Ra'anana (Israel)
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