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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>, "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, <biblical-studies AT yahoogroups.com>, <biblicalist AT yahoogroups.com>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Deut. 32:6
  • Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 20:24:57 +0200

According to context, the word "Qanekha" obviously means "your creator" or "your owner", and that is how it is understood by most commentators and translators. However the Masoretic vocalization actually means "your reed" (see Rashi for an even more imaginative "your nest"). "Your creator"/"your owner" should be "Qonekha". Does anyone have an explanation for the Masoretic vocalization? And, as long as we're on the subject, why there is a dagesh in the Qoph?

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1. I think "asher" must be understood between "avikha'" and "qanekha": "Maybe he is not your father (who) got you?"
Pay attention: "qanekha" means "your reed", yes. But it means also "he got you (male)". These are polysemic words having more than one meaning. In Spanish, where I'm from, "traje" means:
-a male suit
but it means
-I brought here
as well. The real meaning of the word depends on the context.

But in my search on Hebrew patterns I did not find another word like "qanekha" namely a merging of Qal Perfect, third person singular masculine, of verbs lamed"yod (= lamed"heh) + second person singular masculine suffix (you, male).

2. And why is there a dagesh (perhaps only in some Codexes) within the shin in "sham" (Ex 17:6) and within the lamed in "lo" (Gen 38:9) and within the resh in "rakh" (Pr 15:1)... and in... and in... and in...? Yigal, maybe oddities of the Masoretics (to my mind, of course)!

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)





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