Karl, by "CV" you mean Consonant + Vowel?
Pere Porta 2011/4/20 K Randolph <[email protected]> > Pere: > > This was poetry, meant to be sung. This looks like the addition of a sound > to make the word tempo fit the music. But that works only if you accept that > Biblical Hebrew was a CV language. > > Karl W. Randolph. > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At considering Ps 51:9 I wonder about the last word in the verse. >> )LBYN, a typical Hiph'il, imperfect, first person singular: *I will cause >> to >> be white* (in a literal translation) >> >> Now, the real sense is: I will be caused to be/become white. >> >> To my eyes it would seem more logical here the use of the Hoph'al: )ULBAN. >> >> Why Hiph'il and not Huph'al? >> Of course, I'm not intending to change the text; I just look for a more or >> less convincing explanation. >> >> -- >> Pere Porta >> (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) >> > -- Pere Porta _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
