Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

The internal pronouns היא and הוא as represented by the vowels I  
U O E, are universal. Gender and number are added later. For instance:
שבור = שב-הוא-ר he (it) is broken
שבורה = שב-הוא-ר-היא she is broken
שבורים = שב-הוא-ר-הם they are broken
The internal הוא refers to the thing being at the state described  
by the root שבר

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 17, 2010, at 11:54 PM, Pere Porta wrote:

> Isaac Fried wrote:
> 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.
> _______
>
> Dear Isaac,
> as regards the internal pronoun, O = HW), would you say that where  
> the plural is dealt with it would also be HW) = he?
>
> Samples: Ezr 7:28 (6th. word); 2Ch 22:4 (11th word)...
>
> I think that here it would rather mean "they"... would it not?
> If so, then would the pronoun O = HW) mean both "he" and "they"?
>
>
> Hearty,
>
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>
> 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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