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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "John Wilking" <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>, "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:37:52 +0200

John,

In my opinion the stand-alone Hebrew personal pronoun ANI is the compound AN-I, where AN is an existence marker, or a substantive, corresponding to the English 'in, on', and I is a universal identity marker [as is U], here for the one who refers to himself. The I in V-)APS-I of Isaiah 47:8 has the same purpose. The root )PS, 'complete, replete, full, packed', is a variant of )BS of Proverbs 15:17.

Isaac Fried, Boston University
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wilking" <jcwilking AT yahoo.com>
To: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] YHWH


Yitzhak,

If ANI can mean "It is I," perhaps that is what it means in Isaiah 47:8 and 10, especially since it is translated as EGW EIMI in the LXX (I believe) which also means "It is I." But here it is not in response to a question, "Is that you?," but in a setting of self exaltation. (That also got me thinking of John 8:58).

Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 27, 2007 3:01 PM, John Wilking wrote:
How would you say, "It is I" in Hebrew? Are there different ways?

Yigal gave you an example in Modern Hebrew.

In 1 Kings 18:8, you see an example from Biblical Hebrew: "Ani."

Yitzhak Sapir
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