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  • From: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • To: John Butzu <jbutzu AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Another Quick Question...
  • Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:34:05 +0100

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 09:46:03AM -0500, John Butzu wrote:
> Hello all again.
> After the great response from my last question yesterday, I have decided
> this morning to "try again" with another simple question from a self taught
> layperson trying to understand the Hebrew Bible. I use a newer version
> of Bible Works frequently to help aid my study and came across something in
> the Hebrew Morphology that I find puzzling. Here it is...
> (Note: for all you BibleWorks users out there, you may be able to answer
> this question easier, yet I think anyone who knows Hebrew could help me in
> answer this question.)
>
> In the Psalms, when an introduction is given, i.e. "To the *chief* Director,
> a Psalm of David," the first line of the unpointed masoretic text reads:
> *LMNCX
> LDWD MZMWR. * (Psalm 40:1 lamnaccëªH lüdäwìd mizmô - BHT transliterated)
>
> My computer software program is telling me that the particle article
> *"het"*(eng. "the") is found in the first word of the text, yet it is
> not in the
> text. I do not think that this is a software glitch, as the people from
> Bible Works are usually on top of mistakes such as these and correct them as
> soon as possible in various upgrades and patches.
>
> *Can anyone please explain why, along with the prefix lamed ("to, for") my
> software program is telling me that there is a "het" that is being
> associated with the first word, (that word is in the piel form - hence eng.
> translation = "chief, etc" ... ???*

An elision of HE occured here, as it is common when preposition
L- / B- / K- is combined with the article. You can however still
"see" the article on the vocalization: it remains "la" (for "l-ha"),
otherwise (without the article) one would read as "limnaṣṣe(a)ḥ".

P.

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Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek>
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