yes, dikita, pi`el in context. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote: > Lovely, Randall. > Yes, I mistook the groups! > > Now, DKYT can be read as "DAkyt" and not as "DIkyt"? Namely, qal and not > piel? > > Kind regards. > > Pere Porta > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) > > > > 2011/4/11 Randall Buth <[email protected]> >> >> shalom Pere >> katabta: >> > ask, please, ten (learned) people about this issue and put them down in >> > two groups according the answer they gave: >> > Group one: those who claim that DKYT is a verbal form of DK', crush, >> > with the meaning "you crushed". >> > Group two: those who claim that DKYT is an adjective. >> > >> > And then.... compare the results. >> > Here is my prediction: >> > You will get a result 1 in group one and a result 9 in group two. >> > Kind regards >> > Pere Porta >> >> Three brief notes. >> >> 1. There is a typo. You meant to say 9 in group one (verb) and 1 >> in group two (adjective). (and I assume that your 'learned people' >> refers to fluent Hebrew speakers/readers) >> >> 2. In order to read "dkyt" as an adjective one would hypothesize a >> word dexuyot, but that word would normally be written dkwywt or >> dkywt. You will note that long 'o' and 'u' and 'i' are regularly written >> with w and y in Ps 51, including 'internal' vowel letters. >> >> 3. Actually, your numbers are off. The average would be more than >> nine out of ten reading the verb, and less than one proposing an >> adjective. >> >> There is no problem with reading dkyt as dakita in Ps 51.10, >> so evreyone does. It is not missing letters but written exactly the >> way it should be and it fits within normal paramteters of BH poetry. >> >> braxot >> Randall >> -- >> Randall Buth, PhD >> www.biblicallanguagecenter.com >> Biblical Language Center >> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life >> _______________________________________________ >> b-hebrew mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > > > > -- > Pere Porta > >
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