From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Structure of Exod 19:18
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:49:00 -0500
Dear Dave,
>> Compare Jer 44:23, which also uses MIP.:N"Y YHWH )A:$ER.
>Compare how? This is the structure I would expect, as opposed to what's
>in Ex 19:18. My question is, how to account for the odd structure that
>seems to split the )A:$ER clause in two with the intervening YHWH?
When I asked you to compare Jer 44:23, I simply took the Hebrew words above
from your original post. But in Exod 19:18 there is no divine name between
the MIP.:N"Y and the )A:$ER. Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or did you
misread Exod 19:18? It just means: "And Mt. Sinai was smoke, all of it,
because ("because of that") the Lord came down upon it in fire . . . ."