Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Hamuel <davidhamuel AT sbcglobal.net>]

I have an interesting question on accents and a poetic reading.
`al divrati ??-????? in Psalm 110:4 has a long tradition of being read
as a poetic preposition with the yud being a poetic embellishment
and not the personal pronoun 'my'. The LXX does not have 'my'
here, and Rashi, Ibn-Ezra, and QimHi all point out that the phrase
`al divrati should be interpreted as if it read `al divrat.

My question concerns the MT accents. They have a revia` mugrash
on this phrase, which is a major disjunctive in the psalms (eme"t)
system of te`amim. I am thinking that this accent suggests that
the MT interpreted `al-divrati as "on my word, O Melchitsedek".
Does anyone have some nice counterexamples for revia` mugrash
that would support the traditional reading within the confines of the
MT?


-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
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> They have a revia` mugrash on this phrase, which is a major disjunctive > 
> in the psalms (eme"t)

First and foremost, revia mugrash is not a major disjunctive; this ta'am is 
similar to tippeha (21 books) which is very common!; btw, it's called tippeha 
by the Masorah. 

Second, where and why Rashi/Ibn-Ezra/QimHi said that there is a problem with 
that verse since of the revia mugrash?  



Best,

David Hamuel
Type Designer 
Biblical Hebrew, Grammar & Cantillation Expert

Los Angeles, CA — USA