Karl, for לענת you mean the short spelling of the word we find in Gn 45:3?
Regards from Pere Porta (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) 2011/2/24 K Randolph <[email protected]> > אדני יהוה נתן לי לשון למודים לדעת לעות את יעף דבר יעיר בבקר בבקר יעיר לי > אזן > לשמע כלמודים > > Any ideas on what this means? > > I suspect a copyist error here, that לעות should be לענת ( L(WT should be > L(NT ). If that were so, it would have been before the writing of the Great > Isaiah Scroll, it has the same as the MT consonantal text. The LXX seems to > indicate a different reading (or did they not understand it as well, and so > faked it?) > > Or is it possible that we misunderstand the verb עות (WT ? > > It’s been a few slow days, so maybe a good time to start a discussion. > > Karl W. Randolph. > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
