Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

The pre-positioned combination L-MI- appears also in L-MI-QATON of  
2Ki 23:2.

I am not detecting a substantial difference of meaning between L-MI- 
YOM and MI-YOM, but the poetic build-up of L-MI-YOM seems to me a  
kind of "up from the day", containing a whiff of a rhetoric  
overstatement.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Charles Grebe wrote:

> חברים
>
> I have another little thing that I ran into in my 2 Samuel 7  
> reading. In verse 6 there is the word yom with two prepositions,  
> min and li. I did a search and found that this form למיום  
> appears 3 times (Judges 19:30, 2 Samuel 7:6 and Isaiah 7:17). Does  
> anyone know if there is any difference in meaning between this form  
> למיום and the more common מיום?
>
> thanks,
>
> Charles Grebe
> Briercrest College and Seminary
> Caronport, SK
>
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