Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jonathan Henry <jonathankhenry AT hotmail.com>]

Yitzhak,
 
Thanks for addressing a feature that I've been mulling - the absence of the 
waw. I'm taking another look at this passage with your reconstruction in 
mind. 
 
Jon Henry
Perkasie, PA



> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:32:51 +0000> From: yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com> To: 
> b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Translating Targum 
> Frag. of Is 1:27> > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:> > 
> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Jonathan Henry wrote:> >> In some Targum 
> manuscripts of Is. 1:27 I find the phrase YSWPNN LH BZKW in place> >> of 
> the MT's W$BYH BCDQH. I have translated the Targum 'those who are consumed> 
> >> for her with merit.' Is there a more preferable translation? I 
> appreciate your assistance.> >> > The Vulgate has a verb here: 
> http://vulgate.org/ot/isaiah_1.htm> > et reducent eam in iustitia = and 
> they shall bring her back in justice> >> > The HUB suggests the source for 
> this translation in the Vulgate is a> > reading "w$bwh".> > Having 
> reconsidered, I'd suggest that the rather than the HUB suggested> 
> reconstructed reading for the Vulgate, a more appropriate reading for both> 
> this and the Vulgate is "y$bwh". In other words, the text read a yodh 
> where> the MT has a waw and read a waw where the MT has a yodh. This word> 
> would then be read as either [yashivuha] "they will bring her back" or> 
> [yishbuha] "they will capture her". It will also explain the missing waw 
> in> the Targum.> > Yitzhak Sapir> 
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