Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

sorry for the typo. The line in the Hebrew example should have
been
 השלם. את. והברכתך
ha-shalom atta?  vehivraxtixa . . .

randall buth

James Christian wrote
>>Cool exercise.
> ...
>>At a quick glance (I haven't read them in detail) they mostly look pretty
>>much Hebrewish to me.
>>
>>James Christian
>
>>2010/5/26 Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir at gmail.com>
>>. . .
>>> inscription, for one reason or another.
>>>
>>> 1 -
>>> אמר. למלך. אמר. לבלבל
>> השלם. את. והברכתך<
> ha-shalom atta? uveraxtixa . . .
>
> Yes, it's a 'cool' exercise.
> It also illustrates the need for 'analogical' analysis vs. 'digital' when
> dealing with very very very small corpora of language data.
>
> without spoiling the fun for those who want to read these, I will
> point out the kind of game to play. In example one, notice
> the blessing 'and I will bless you [by the name of ...]'
> In classical Hebrew this is avarexexa אברכך. If using 'w-'
> syntax, then one could say uveraxtixa ...
> But here we have a hif`il, made clear by the 'h':
> vehivraxtixa . . .  'and I will bless you . . .'
> In classical Hebrew l-hbryk is how one drops an animal/camel at
> a well. One makes it kneel. However, in this dialect it has become
> 'bless' and in an equivalent context where one expects a pi`el.
> So one may call it one distinctive feature of this dialect. Naturally,
> with so little, it is impossible to know the extent and exclusions
> or inclusions of this dialect. More can be said, though, even on
> this text, but I will stop here. The rules of the game should be
> clear.
>
> So my take? I view it as within the Canaanite language and a
> distinctive dialect. Folks would have understood BH and vice
> versa. (Since I know where the text is from, I won't
> say more.)
>
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