On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:00:13PM -0700, K Randolph wrote: > Nir: > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > dear karl, > > > > you consider WY$TXW and H$TXWH as representing two different roots. i > > suspect > > that this interpretation is incorrect: i consider them the same root, > > except > > that a final H in WY$TXW was dropped by apocope, as is the rule in all the > > LH-irregular roots, in the ("short") wayiqtol form: WYR), WYBK etc. > > > > Whoops, I see I was a little too quick in answering, gave wrong examples. > I’ve got to stop this remembering something, then looking quickly to get > verse numbers. > > Look at Genesis 27:29 there is both WY$XW and WY$XWW for plurals, and in > Genesis 43:28 there’s WY$TXW. Both cases, the Masoretes gave an assumed > Qere for a Kethiv, is there any evidence from the DSS that the Qere is > correct? If not, then stick with the Kethiv.
I think this is methodologically very questionable procedure. Petr Tomasek _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
