Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Dear Pere:

Thanks, you have now widened the search to include a possible טום or טים as
well as the נטם I mentioned before.

Since I don’t know any cognate languages, for those who know cognate
languages, is there any root from any of these possibilities that would fit
this context?

Karl W. Randolph.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Remark, Karl, that our word could also be (theoretically) derived from a
> root ayin-waw (tum).
> We find samples of this kind in Gn 18:19; 2Sa 3:10; Js 4:3; Jr 44:25...
> And also from roots pe-yod: Neh 13:27; 1Ch 17:19
>
> Heartly,
>
> Pere Porta
>
> 2010/10/21 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
>
>> Pere:
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Karl,
>>>
>>> 1. Concerning the last question in your message, yes, it looks like a
>>> Hiphil in a quite similar way of "l'hapyl" (1Sa 18:25), which is from
>>> 'nafal'.
>>> But.... it seems that verb 'natam' is not found in Hebrew.
>>> Then... the hypothesis does not work.
>>>
>>
>> If this is from N+M, then it would be a happax legomenon. If we used the
>> above argument for every happax legomenon, would we have any?
>>
>>>
>>> 2. No relation with the last verb in Lv 11:43 (which comes from tame', to
>>> be unclean)
>>>
>>
>> Context leads to questioning this conclusion. Not a denial, just
>> questioning, putting it in the uncertain column.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Why are you not fully accepting the usual or traditional parsing and
>>> understanding of this word as a Qal Participle, plural masculine, of verb
>>> להט (lahat)?
>>>
>>
>> Context.
>>
>> The context indicates that we should expect to find in this place an
>> infinitive with a prefixed lamed. The form we find has the lamed for the
>> infinitive, and the infixed yod of a hiphil as of a pe nun verb. Hence my
>> question.
>>
>> To be honest, I didn’t even consider להט as a possibility, as it fits the
>> context neither in form nor meaning.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Pere Porta
>>> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>>>
>>> Since I don’t know any cognate languages, I raise the question to others,
>> is there is a word N+M in a cognate language, and does it has a meaning 
>> that
>> might fit this context?
>>
>> The other option, are there any alternate readings that indicate a copyist
>> error?
>>
>> Karl W. Randolph.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Pere Porta
> "Ei nekrói ouk eguéirontai, fágomen kai píomen áurion gar apothnéskomen"
> (1Cor 15:32)
>