Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Au contraire, I also read Le-KOL, the schwa ("MA" or "NAX" it is the  
same to me) not withstanding, in unison with KOL AM ISRAEL, as they  
want to habitually do to all OTIYOT Ha-SHIMUSH B K L M.
I just looked up the Hebrew text to make sure it is עמו and not  
עממו as you write it.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 1, 2010, at 3:00 AM, Yigal Levin wrote:

> I haven't been following this too closely so I don't know if it's  
> come up, but how do our learned haverim understand Ps. 116:13 and  
> again 18, "negda-na lekol-'ammo" (and Isaac, no need to repeat that  
> you don't agree with the e for sheva and the doubling of the mem)?  
> "Negda" is almost universally translated as "before" or "in the  
> presence of", as if it were "neged kol-'ammo". However the suffix - 
> na and the proposition le- both indicate the "negda" is a verb.  
> Wouldn't "nagida-na lekol-'ammo" - "let us tell it to all his  
> people" make more sense?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yigal Levin
>
> Tzur-Yigal, Israel
>
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