Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

> > From: K Randolph
> > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:36 PM
> > To: B-Hebrew
> > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] prosthetic aleph in Ps 22:17?
> >
> >
> > I take this as a verb that appears only twice, the other time in Amos
> > 8:8,
> > meaning 'to deform', an understanding taken from Akkadian medical texts
> > referring to diseases that deform. In which case, the aleph is an
> > integral
> > part of the verb, not something slipped in.
> >
> [Steve Miller] How would you translate Amos 8:8 then with that verb?

[Steve Miller] Karl, one other question that got missed. How would you
translate Amos 8:8 with the Akkadian kar verb? Thanks.

Sincerely,
-Steve Miller
Detroit
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to a people to be born,
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they'll retell to everyone
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