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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ending -TIY
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:14:17 +0200

It appears to me that the form TIY is but the compressed combination of the personal pronouns AT-HI. It is used in place of ANI = AN-HI in such forms as RAXAC-TI = RAXAC-ATI = RAXAC-ANI, 'I washed (it)', in order , I think, to differentiate it from the accusative RXAC-ANI, '(he) washed me'. A verb followed by a personal pronoun is chosen in Hebrew to indicate past action, to wit:
RAXAC-TI = RAXAC-ATI, I washed
RAXAC-TA = RAXAC-ATA, you (male, singular) washed


Then, how do you explain the word "LIQ:RFTIY" in 1Ki 2:8?

Pere Porta




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