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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Hebrew List <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Inflection or Synonym
  • Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:59:17 -0400

In my very humble opinion להגיד is a variant of להגיש 'to present, to place before, to put forward, to set forth in words'. It is also related, methinks, to להקיש
As I see it the initial ה (he) is for the actor, and the internal י (he) is for the words.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Sep 2, 2010, at 6:26 PM, K Randolph wrote:


Genesis 14:13 “a survivor came and went before Abram”

Genesis 45:26 “They went before their father saying…”

Genesis 47:1 “Joseph came and went before pharaoh and said…”

Numbers 11:27 “And a young man ran and went before Moses and said…”

Deuteronomy 26:3 “And you will come unto the priest who will be in those
days and you will say unto him, ‘I am caused to come before YHWH your God
today, because I came unto the land…’”

Judges 14:2 “And he ascended and went before his father and his mother and
he said, …”

1 Samuel 14:43 “…and Jonathan stood before him and said…”

1 Samuel 18:24 “And Saul’s servants went before him saying, …”




Why not say le-haggid means 'to communicate',
and be done with it?






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