-----Original Message-----
From: K Randolph [mailto:kwrandolph AT gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 1:41 PM
To: Steve Miller
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Object of "lamo" in Isaiah 53
Steve:
I see you took this off line.
Even with the L- prefix the -MW suffix does not always take the
plural. I have heard this argument before, and it is simply not
factual.
There are a couple of times in Genesis 9 where it is forced to make it
plural, the normal reading is singular, also at least once in Job and
at least one other time in Isaiah where there is no other reading
other than to have it refer to a singular subject.
It is true that a majority of the times it refers to plural subjects,
but not always.
As I mentioned before, the context of the verse is in a section that
refers to a "slave" who is distinct from "my people", especially taken
in context of the preceding and following chapters, that distinction
made explicit in 52:14. Within the context, this verse also refers to
that "slave".
Then to take one portion of the verse and have it refer
to "my people" as the subject makes no contextual nor grammatical
sense.
Karl W. Randolph.
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