Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

>  (KR)
>> Why not use the Biblical term מזלות which is plural, used only once in
>> Tanakh? With that being the plural, what would have been the singular for
>> that noun? There are three possibilities.
>>
>>  (PP)
>>
> As a first approach, I'd say that the singular of MZLWT (2K 23:5) is MZL,
> the same as the singular of MS(WT, journeys, is MS(, journey (or
> missile) (1Ki 6:7).
> Which are the other two possibilities?
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>

You listed my first choice, but grammatically speaking, other options are
מזלה and מזלת.

Karl W. Randolph.