On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 02:47:08AM +0300, Yigal Levin wrote: > Um, Uri... > > What about Ex. 1:10?
If this would come from ה-ב-ה, wouldn't the imperative be הֲבֶה rather then הָבָה? > Yigal Levin > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Uri Hurwitz > Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 2:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [b-hebrew] Hava Nagila > > Karl, > > Perhaps singing at least the first line of this song (which became a > favorite of singer Harry Belafonte among others) will clear up some of the > confusion. > > And, sorry, there is no HBH root in biblical Hebrew. > > The first word of the song is simply an 'extended' > Imperative of YHB. > > Uri Hurwitz > > > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew > > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew -- Petr Tomasek <http://www.etf.cuni.cz/~tomasek> Jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
