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[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

In present day Hebrew the BINYAN of HITPAEL is often used for mutual  
action, for example, HIT-XABQ-U, 'they embraced, XBQ,  each other'.  
Is there an instance of similar usage in the Hebrew bible?

Isaac Fried, Boston University
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Isaac,

One clear instance of this (and it's as far as I've looked so far) is in
Genesis 42:1.

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=D7=A7=D6=B9=D7=91 =D7=9B=D6=BC=D6=B4=D7=99 =D7=99=D6=B6=D7=A9=D7=81-=D7=A9=
=D7=81=D6=B6=D7=91=D6=B6=D7=A8 =D7=91=D6=BC=D6=B0=D7=9E=D6=B4=D7=A6=D6=B0=
=D7=A8=D6=B8=D7=99=D6=B4=D7=9D =D7=95=D6=B7=D7=99=D6=BC=D6=B9=D7=90=D7=9E=
=D6=B6=D7=A8 =D7=99=D6=B7=D7=A2=D6=B2=D7=A7=D6=B9=D7=91 =D7=9C=D6=B0=D7=91=
=D6=B8=D7=A0=D6=B8=D7=99=D7=95
=D7=9C=D6=B8=D7=9E=D6=BC=D6=B8=D7=94 =D7=AA=D6=BC=D6=B4=D7=AA=D6=B0=D7=A8=
=D6=B8=D7=90=D7=95=D6=BC
WYR) Y(QB KY Y$ $BR BMCRYM WY)MR LBNYW LMH TTR)W
And Yaakov saw that there was food (=D7=A9=D7=91=D7=A8 - "grain" or "corn")=
in Egypt, so he
said to his sons: Why are you [just] looking at each other?

They were standing there looking at each other rather than getting off thei=
r
duffs and going to Egypt to save their starving families! We see the use of
=D7=9C=D7=94=D7=AA=D7=A8=D7=90=D7=95=D7=AA LHTR)WT in the sense of "seeing =
each other" or "looking at each
other" here in this verse.

Regards,
Jason Hare

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:

> In present day Hebrew the BINYAN of HITPAEL is often used for mutual
> action, for example, HIT-XABQ-U, 'they embraced, XBQ,  each other'.
> Is there an instance of similar usage in the Hebrew bible?
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
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