Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

Steve Miller wrote:
> > From: Harold Holmyard
> >
> > Dear Karl,
> >     
> > > I used to think that the -MW suffix always referred to the third
> > > person indefinite number, but when I was recently analyzing Job 40:4,
> > > I came to the realization that the subject of the -MW suffix was Job
> > > himself, in the first person. Now I'll have to go back and see if this
> > > is the only usage that is not third person, or if there are others as
> > > well. This is a new assignment for me.
> > >
> > >       
> > Job 40:4 is a bit different because the -MW suffix has no pronominal
> > value. LMW is functioning as a poetic alternative for the preposition L.
> > It is a frequent usage, appearing 55 times according to BDB.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Harold Holmyard
> >
> >     
>
> [Steve Miller] Harold, LMW is used 59 times in the Tanach. How could it be
> used 55 times with no pronoun meaning? Job 40:4 looks like the only one
> where most translators skip the pronoun meaning.
>   

I did not mean to imply that it lacked a pronominal meaning in all those 
cases. Thanks for the clarification.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard