Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

חמד has the meaning of not just generalized desire, but desire of a
particular object or person. So we find in Isaiah 53 that God’s slave we
see but he does not have the good looks that we should desire specifically
him.

>From the contexts you present, this goes into the question I asked years
ago, why are some nouns found in both masculine and feminine forms? My list
of many such nouns is at home, and I am on an extended trip away from home,
but one pair I remember is חק - חקה which also appear to have the same
meaning. I identified over 100 such pairs.

This looks like one example of my generalized question.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> I remark that חֶמֶד, desire, delight (Am 5:11) is used as a synonim of
> חֶמְדָּה (Hos 13:15).
> Do you know of some other similar cases?
>
> --
> Pere Porta