In a message dated 7/10/2006 12:25:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time, joel AT stucki.ws writes:Using Paratext (a tool available only to Bible translators), I was able to find the following, which if I have got it correct is an exhaustive list of 65 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible of prefix L- with a word with the pattern ?A?A?, where A represents qamats. I have excluded cases where the final letter is he or yod as this is a much more common pattern. I have not checked that all of the words are nouns. Many of them are proper names e.g. Laban, Tamar, Dathan, Balak, Barak, Nabal, Nathan, Haman.
So as not be hippocritical here are some examples of this exact vowel
pattern used with nouns and a lamed prefix:
Deut 28:37
1Sam 10:12
1Kings 9:7
Ps 49:5
Ps 69:12
2Chr 7:20
Hab 1:9
This exact noun and vowel pattern occurs also
Num 22:32 Almost same phrasing
1 Sam 29:4
2 Sam 19:23
The Samuel references seem extremely clear that they are nouns.
Joel ---
Thanks for posting the examples. I am really curious about how you managed to find the ones in the first list.
The ones in the second list are easily found with a concordance (I looked in Even-Shoshan) or a Bible software search engine (I used Logos).
But how did you manage to find the first ones? I am impressed <s>!
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