Psalm 6/Variants

Variants

Kinds of variants

• v.3a. The tetragrammaton is omitted in some medieval Hebrew manuscripts.
• v.3b. The tetragrammaton is omitted in a few medieval Hebrew manuscripts as well as in the LXX manuscript, Codex Vaticanus.

The following is from Barthélemy's Critique textuelle de l’Ancien Testament volume on the Psalms. For a key to the various symbols and abbreviations, click here.

Ps 6,8(7) עָתְקָה {B} MT, S, T // facil-styl: G, α', σ', Hebr.,

Likely solutions

• v.3ab. The above analysis has demonstrated the symmetrical structure of the poem based on its word count. The number of independent lexemes is distributed equally across the two halves of the poem (39 words, 39 words) and symmetrically across the poem's four sections (A: 24 words; B: 15 words; C: 15 words; D: 24 words). This feature argues for the originality of the tetragrammaton in both v.3a and v.3b. See and .