To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Lemarbe
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:50:16 -0700
Stephen,
> At 07:04 PM 9/16/00 -0700, Dave Washburn wrote:
> >
> >> In Isaiah 9:7 the letter mem has occurred in the middle of word, but the
> >> =
> >> form is final. Anybody have explications?
> >>
> >What edition are you looking at? In my BHS, 9:7 doesn't have a
> >mem anywhere.
>
> Look at the first word of Is 9:6. This is one of the places where the
> versification differs between the Hebrew bible and its English version.
Ah, OK. It looks like a typo to me, but perhaps someone with
access to the facsimile edition of the Leningrad Codex can
enlighten us as to whether it's in the ms or not.
Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Éist le glór Dé."