Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 61.3 "called 'oaks of righteousness'"
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:07:54 +0000
At 04:45 07/12/2005, Harold Holmyard wrote:
HH: Ir's a Pual perfect form. There is a vowel above the Q.
The Westminster 4.0 morphology has no doubt that it is, and the
Gesenius grammar on p741 concurs.
But HAL has reservations, adding: (passive qal ?)
Perhaps this is a nod in the direction of Waltke, B. K., & O'Connor,
M. P. (1990). An introduction to biblical Hebrew syntax, which on
p.418 states that " many passive Qal forms are pointed in the MT as
Pual " and this is developed in s. 22.6:
>> The Masoretes recognized Qal only as an active stem, but there is
much evidence that Biblical Hebrew also had a passive
counterpart. On comparative grounds a Qal passive is easily
justified. A simple passive stem is attested in some of the cognate
languages: in Arabic, where it is in full use; in Ugaritic, where it
cannot be readily distinguished in the prefix conjugation from the
passive stem with prefix n; in the Tell Amarna glosses; and possibly
in some Aramaic dialects.<<
Additionally, Lambdin in his basic grammar states ( p.253 ) " There
are several forms, taken by the Masoretes as Pual or Hophal, which
must rather be viewed as survivors of an obsolete passive of the Qual "
I see that the translation done by the author of the Word commentary
on Isaiah is:
>> So that one calls them oaks of the legitimate, Yahweh's planting
for beautification. <<