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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew list <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] minni
  • Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 23:07:46 -0500

Seems to me that this reflects different developments of HEM הם (earlier HIM as hinted by the dagesh in the M of HEMAH of Ex. 19:13?) and HEN הן (earlier HIN?) as preserved in LA-HEN of Ex. 1:18, a development that eventually culminated in the separation of HEM for boys and HEN for girls.

Namely, in 2Ki 11:13 HARACIYN = HA-RAC-HEN, while in 2S 15:1 it is RACIYM = RAC-HEM.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 4, 2012, at 12:28 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

1. Suffix -YN (for -YM) for the plural masculine: compare [H]RCYN in 2Ki
11:13 with RCYM in 2S 15:1

2. The use of final -MW for the usual -HEM for the third person plural
masculine: compare LMW (Hb 2:7 or Ps 44:4) with LHM (Rt 1:6), *to them
(males)* (I omit the vowels).





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