Pere: Now to throw a spanner in the works:
Looking at the causing to die, we find it written with the tau doubled when a personal pronoun is added, 1 Samuel 17:51, 2 Samuel 1:9, 10, 16, 2 Chronicles 22:11. Looking at the boughten dictionaries, there are three verbs, HWM, HMH, HMM where often the only way to tell between the different words are the Masoretic points. Two of the words have the same meaning, dealing with the idea of being in restless motion, stirred up, in commotion, the third one HMM is used all but twice in context of war, where the loser is unable to continue. HMTM can be conjugated from either HWM or HMM. Since no one else has mentioned it, there is another example of HMTM used with the second person plural suffix -TM, 2 Samuel 13:28, this time in the context of having victory over another person such that he ceases to be a viable enemy. So the pattern found in Tanakh is that when a personal pronoun suffix as a subject is added to the hiphil of MWT that the tau is doubled (not when the personal pronoun is an object), and that there are two other verbs that can be conjugated as HMTM with the -TM being a second persona plural suffix subject, what is the likelihood that this example in Numbers 17:6 is conjugated from MWT? Especially when the contexts allow for the other readings? So instead of closure, it looks as if I have added more options to the list, hence a spanner in the works. Karl W. Randolph. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
