When LXX (en kairwi) construes it as related to 't, "time, in my opinion the translator was guessing. I agree that it is a (maybe dialectical) variant of ws, to come and help. The t/s interchange is common(both are alveolars), and the meaning appears again in MHeb and fits the Isaiah context well. Ill stipulate, however, that Joel 4:11 isnt strong support.
Personally I find a derivation from to answer less convincing, since it seems to require a sort of combination of consonant confusion and haplography, and it's less clear why the "weary" would need "answering" rather than "helping." Ken Cherney _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
