Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

It appears to me that the word contains two personal pronouns, one  
internal, O ( הוא ), for the performer (here ABRAHAM) of the act  
אהב , and one external, IY (אני ), for the beneficiary of the  
act, here the God of Israel.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 16, 2010, at 1:42 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

> Hi.
> The last word in Is 41:8, )HBY, what does it really mean?:
> 1. the person I love
> 2. or rather the person who loves me ("my lover")
>
> Of course these are different things.
> Can this pattern have either meaning depending on the context?
> In other words: is the final Y the subject of )HB or rather its  
> object?
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
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