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  • From: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ps 23 questions
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:08:44 -0700

Steve:

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Steve Miller <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 1. In Ps 23:5, does “in the presence of my enemies” modify the
> preceding “You ordered before me a table” or the following “You made fat
> with oil my head”? Can it apply equally to both?
>

I have it modifying “You set up a table before me” in that a table is set up
in a certain place and doesn’t move (at least it’s not supposed to move).

Secondly, if you read it with each letter referring to a syllable, then
there is a beat, a rhythm, that works better with it modifying what goes
before rather than after.

2. In v6b, the MT actually says, “And I will return וְשַׁבְתִּי in the
> house of the Lord”, which does not make sense. Everyone, including Jewish
> translations, translates it according to LXX, “And I will dwell”. This
> would require adding a yod between the vav and shin . Why not translate it
> as “And I will rest in the house of the Lord”? This would require no change
> to the MT consonants, but would alter the MT vowels.
>

Another option is that this is not a verb, but a noun with a first person
possessive suffix, “And my settling down …”

>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> -Steve Miller
>
> Detroit
>
> <http://www.voiceInWilderness.info> www.voiceInWilderness.info


Karl W. Randolph.




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