Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Pere,

In my opinion the original [whatever "original" may mean] personal  
pronouns were just the vowels U and I [the vowel A is just a puff of  
air],  and later also O and E [they are still absent in Arabic], in  
the form they are now infixed, for instance LUQAX = L-U-QAX = L-HU- 
QAX, 'he [HU] is taken'. The separate personal pronouns are the  
combination of substantives, or single consonant roots, represented  
by H, [X, K], M, N, T, and said vowels [some are lost]. Thus the  
English 'I' could be ANI, ATI, AXI. This X [K] is present in the  
extended personal pronouns ANOKI, ANAXNU, and the genitive or  
accusative suffixes -AK, -AKA, and so on. X is the substantial part  
of XAI, 'alive' and AX, 'brother'. Its softer manifestation H is  
present in HI, HU, HEM and HEN.
The word LIQRA)T, 'towards', ends already in the letter T, as do L 
(UMAT, 'against', and ZULAT, 'except for'. We shall not go now into  
the issue as to the nature of this last AT, namely, if it is a  
personal pronoun, or if it is a radical letter, as in the root KRT.  
Suffice it to say that for 'me' Hebrew uses the bare IY. Notice that,  
indeed, the last T of L(UMATIY is without a Dagesh.
The word L(UMAT is inflected as:
L(UMATIY = L(UMAT-YI = L(UMAT-ANI, opposite me
L(UMATKA = L(UMAT-AKA = L(UMAT-ATA, opposite you [male, singular]
L(UMATEK = L(UMAT-EK = L(UMAT-E-AT opposite you [female, singular,  
with ET, possibly HI-AT]
L(UMATO = L(UMAT-HO = L(UMAT-HU, opposite him
L(UMATAH = L(UMAT-AH = L(UMAT-HI, opposite her
L(UMATENU = L(UMAT-ENU = L(UMAT-E-ANU, opposite us
L(UMATKEM = L(UMAT-AKEM = L(UMAT-ATEM, opposite you [plural, male]
L(UMATKEN = L(UMAT-AKEN = L(UMAT-ATEN, opposite you [plural, female]
L(UMATAM = L(UMAT-AM = L(UMAT-HEM, opposite them [plural, male]
L(UMATAN = L(UMAT-AN = L(UMAT-HEN, opposite them [plural, female]

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 12, 2007, at 10:14 PM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:

> > 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