Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Dear Jonathan, 

In general, you are correct, the final He is a locative suffix. Specifically, 
"Negeb" is the southern desert area of Israel, and because of its southern 
position, "negeb" is often used as just meaning "south" even when the speaker 
is not positioned north of the Negeb. And so "negbah" could mean "to the 
Negeb" or "southward". Which it is depends of course on the context.

Yigal Levin

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First a disclaimer; I can't read Hebrew. I'm looking for confirmation of 
the meaning of an annotation in my interlinear (I've replaced the Hebrew 
text with the transliteration H, following this 
<https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2003-December/016900.html> 
guide).

* Joshua 10:40: něḡěḇ, noun, proper, land, singular, feminine, normal, 
*definite with **H***
* Joshua 15:21: něḡbā(h), noun, proper, land, singular, feminine, 
normal, definite *without* *H*, *locative* *H
*
Does this mean that H is being used as a kind of locative suffix? As I 
understand it, the difference between these two passages is that one 
refers to the specific geographical location known as the Negev, and one 
refers more generally to the 'south'.

Jonathan Burke.
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