Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

This was poetry, meant to be sung. This looks like the addition of a sound
to make the word tempo fit the music. But that works only if you accept that
Biblical Hebrew was a CV language.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> At considering Ps 51:9 I wonder about the last word in the verse.
> )LBYN, a typical Hiph'il, imperfect, first person singular: *I will cause
> to
> be white* (in a literal translation)
>
> Now, the real sense is: I will be caused to be/become white.
>
> To my eyes it would seem more logical here the use of the Hoph'al: )ULBAN.
>
> Why Hiph'il and not Huph'al?
> Of course, I'm not intending to change the text; I just look for a more or
> less convincing  explanation.
>
> --
> Pere Porta
> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
>