Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yaakov Stein <yaakov_s AT rad.com>]

Karl

> by the time of Jeremiah (assuming that the Documentary Hypothesis is false),
> Hebrew writers consistently wrote the male, third person singular suffix 
> with a waw, not a heh.

In Jeremiah there are a large number of variant spellings (which may be 
simple scribal errors).

I am at a conference without a tanach in hand and so can not give you the 
verse numbers,
but offhand I remember
V)YO instead of V)YH , &)Y which in some manuscripts is &)U
C(YRYHM spelled C(URYHM, TRMYT spelled TRMUT
HNYS instead of HNS, and dozens more.

> 2) the context seems to indicate that this is a person, not something like 
> "his majesty"

That's why I mentioned the modern polite use of KBODO.
It refers to a person, although in third person.

Yaakov (J) Stein