Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Karl,

 

at writing "TW + two root consonants" I mean TW read as in English 'too' or 'tool', not as in the English 'top', 'topic', 'tonic'.

There is a big difference between them.

At giving my answer I intended to mean "TW", not "TO".

 

Friendly,

 

Pere Porta

(Barcelona)

2012/12/11 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

Pere:

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

From the viewpoint of form, there is a verbal form, not a noun.

In my list of about 9,000 patterns, I found none that being the sum of prefix TW- + two root consonants is a noun. And I say this of both prefixes TW- and T + qubbuts.

This said, this pattern TW + two root consonants can be:

 

1. From verbs p"y, as Karl suggests  ------  see Gn 15:15; Am 7:10; Ps 45:15

As a verbal form, can be either niphal or hophal.

 

2. From verbs ayin"waw (or ayin"yod), as lexicons say of twraq in Song 1:3 -------- see 2K 11:15

As a verb, from hophal.

 

3. From verbs ayin"ayin (doubled), as David Kolinsky suggests -------- I found no sample in the Tanakh.

Isaiah 33:1 $DD 

 

Then, the context and the sense must decide which is the precise root TWRQ comes from.

Song 1:3 seems to be a rare construction: shemen twraq shimkha... 

But, Karl, this is certainly not a noun. If the pattern [TW + 2 root consonants] exists in Hebrew as a noun pattern... I surely would have found it.

Let’s look in TWGH from YGH, TWDH from YDH, TWRH from YRH, TW$B from Y$B found in Genesis 23:4, Exodus 12:45, Leviticus 22:10 and at least nine other verses, so you should have found it.

 

Friendly,

 

Pere Porta

(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)=

So my question remains, is this a noun from YRQ?

Karl W. Randolph.

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Pere Porta