Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Nir:

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br> wrote:

> >>> Do you have other examples of where the plural of a feminine noun ending> in a -H has the plural form
ending in -NYWT? Where are they found in Tanakh?

I know of none, that’s why I asked the question when the claim was apparently made. 

> it is the normal way for a feminine noun ending in a -YH to become -YWT. and
> if the last letter in N, so -NYH becomes -NYWT

> That was not my question. Are there other examples where a N was not the final letter before the H, but inserted to make a -NYWT ending?

but then no BH word follows the pattern you are looking for,
not even BYRNYT --> BYRNYWT where the N is already in the singular.
as opposed to BYRH --> BYRWT.

That’s why I understand that the two times BRNYWT is found in contexts that indicate that these are plural nouns, that they indicate that the singular noun BRNYH was in BH. This is a pattern that is found in Tanakh. 

nir cohen

Karl W. Randolph.