Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

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.