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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is it a mistake?
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:52:28 -0400

I am not a fan of biblical "mistakes" and emendations.
It appears to me that (B+Y+, עבטיט consists of AB עב 'thick', and +Y+ טיט 'matter, substance, loam', as in Is. 41:25.
King James translates (B+Y+ עבטיט of Hab. 2:6 as 'thick clay', but the American Standard Version puts it as 'pledges', apparently seeing the word as an (inventive? playful?) variant of the ABO+ עבוט 'pledge, thing of substance or value' of Dt. 24:11.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:39 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

I read Hb 2:6 and see that the last word in the verse is (B+Y+.
I know the word TXTYT, bottom (Ez 31:14) meaning *lowest, the lowest place*.


I'm wondering if (B+Y+ is a mistake for (B+yT...
If not, may we speak of the suffix -Y+ (yod-teth)?
Or should we rather think of a yod plus a doubling of the last root
consonant of the basic )B+ (ayin, beth, teth)?

Kind regards from


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Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)
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