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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Charles Grebe <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>
  • Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 2 Sam 7:6 prep L before meyom
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:23:16 -0500

Hag. 2:18

שימו נא לבבכם מן היום הזה ומעלה מיום עשרים וארבעה לתשיעי למן היום אשר יסד היכל יהוה שימו לבבכם

is indeed interesting because of the WA-MA-LAH וָמָעְלָה up. The single consonant Hebrew root L is just, methinks,
a short AL, as in the words

עלה, לול, ליל, עלילה, עולל, לוע

The AD L-ME-RAXOK, until up-which-is-far of Ezra 3:13 is also noteworthy. Exact English rendering of such buildup of Hebrew pre- positions would lead to awkward English, and KJ leaves it at "afar off".

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Jan 21, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Charles Grebe wrote:

Isaac,

Your reference of 2Ki 23:2 got me thinking about looking for this collocation (lamed + min + X) with other words. There are actually a lot more than I suspected. Quite a number occur in the L+M+X... AD context (from... to). I scanned through the list but didn't study it in detail yet (see lists below). Hag 2:18 may be instructive, however, because it has both the more common Min + yom form and the L+Min form in the same verse. Ezra 3:13 is also interesting because it has AD עד BEFORE the L+Min+X form.





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