Psalm 78/Diagrams/Placeholders/50

v. 50 - Preferred

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SimpleGrammar
DiscourseUnit [v. 50]
  Fragment
    Clause
      Predicate
        verb: יְפַלֵּס he made level >> he cleared
        Object
          Nominal
            noun: נָתִיב path
            Adjectival
              PrepositionalPhrase
                Preposition
                  preposition: לְ for
                Object
                  ConstructChain <gloss="his anger">
                    noun: אַפּ anger
                    suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
  Fragment
    ClauseCluster
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: חָשַׂךְ he spared
          adverb: לֹא not
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition
                preposition: מִ from
              Object
                noun: מָּוֶת death
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="their soul">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: נַפְשׁ soul
                suffix-pronoun: ָם them
      Conjunction
        conjunction: וְ but
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: הִסְגִּיר he shut >> gave over
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition
                preposition: לַ to
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: דֶּבֶר plague
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="their life">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: חַיָּת life
                suffix-pronoun: ָם them

Diagram Code

 DiscourseUnit [v. 50]
  Fragment
    Clause
      Predicate
        verb: יְפַלֵּס he made level >> he cleared
        Object
          Nominal
            noun: נָתִיב path
            Adjectival
              PrepositionalPhrase
                Preposition
                  preposition: לְ for
                Object
                  ConstructChain <gloss="his anger">
                    noun: אַפּ anger
                    suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
  Fragment
    ClauseCluster
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: חָשַׂךְ he spared
          adverb: לֹא not
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition
                preposition: מִ from
              Object
                noun: מָּוֶת death
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="their soul">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: נַפְשׁ soul
                suffix-pronoun: ָם them
      Conjunction
        conjunction: וְ but
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: הִסְגִּיר he shut >> gave over
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition
                preposition: לַ to
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: דֶּבֶר plague
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="their life">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: חַיָּת life
                suffix-pronoun: ָם them

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Note for V. 50

v. 50 – Note that a number of ancient versions read "death" for the MT's לַדֶּ֥בֶר "pestilence."^[1] A grammatical alternative has not been provided, however, as it is not clear how this could arise from a textual issue, and is, in all likelihood, interpretive.^[2]

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Once again (cf. vv. 26, 45, 47), Ḥakham opines, ׳יְפַלֵּט׳ עדית במשׁמעות עבר ""future with the meaning of past"" (1979, 55).

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↑ See the LXX (εἰς θάνατον); some witnesses to TgPs (למותא; though למותנא also attested) and the Syr. (ܠܡܘܬܐ); the revisers, on the other hand, all contain "to pestilence" (τῷ λοιμῷ; Field, 228; https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/hexapla/), as does Jerome's Hebr., pesti.
↑ In the Aramaic and Syriac texts, the issue may have arisen from copyists misunderstanding mwtˀ "death" for mwtnˀ "plague, pestilence," and it therefore an inner-Aramaic error.

[1] See the LXX (εἰς θάνατον); some witnesses to TgPs (למותא; though למותנא also attested) and the Syr. (ܠܡܘܬܐ); the revisers, on the other hand, all contain "to pestilence" (τῷ λοιμῷ; Field, 228; https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/hexapla/), as does Jerome's Hebr., pesti.

[2] In the Aramaic and Syriac texts, the issue may have arisen from copyists misunderstanding mwtˀ "death" for mwtnˀ "plague, pestilence," and it therefore an inner-Aramaic error.

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