Psalm 78/Diagrams/Placeholders/52

v. 52 - Preferred

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DiscourseUnit [v. 52]
  Fragment
    particle: וַ but
  Fragment
    ClauseCluster
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: יַּסַּע he led out
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: כַּ like
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: צֹּאן flock
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="his people">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: עַמּ people
                suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
      Conjunction
        conjunction: וַ and
      Clause
        Predicate 
          verb: יְנַהֲג he guided
          Object
            suffix-pronoun: ֵם them
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: כַּ like
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: עֵדֶר herd
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: בַּ in
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה the <status="elided">
                  noun: מִּדְבָּר wilderness 
  

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 DiscourseUnit [v. 52]
  Fragment
    particle: וַ but
  Fragment
    ClauseCluster
      Clause
        Predicate
          verb: יַּסַּע he led out
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: כַּ like
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: צֹּאן flock
          Object
            Nominal <gloss="his people">
              ConstructChain 
                noun: עַמּ people
                suffix-pronoun: וֹ him
      Conjunction
        conjunction: וַ and
      Clause
        Predicate 
          verb: יְנַהֲג he guided
          Object
            suffix-pronoun: ֵם them
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: כַּ like
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה <status="elided">
                  noun: עֵדֶר herd
          Adverbial
            PrepositionalPhrase
              Preposition 
                preposition: בַּ in
              Object
                Nominal
                  article: ה the <status="elided">
                  noun: מִּדְבָּר wilderness

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Note for V. 52

v. 52 – Regarding the article on both כַּצֹּ֣אן and כַּ֝עֵ֗דֶר, "It has long been noted that the article seems to be vocalized in the Masoretic Text much more frequently than might be expected in these [בְּ, כְּ, and לְ proclitic] phrases" (Bekins, forthcoming §4.2; cf. Lambert 1898, 208). Similarly, Waltke & O'Connor claim that "the Masoretes tended to regularize articular use where they could, that is, with the monographic prepositions" (IBHS §13.7a). See, e.g., the complete lack of independent article in the Song of the Sea (Exodus 15), yet according to the Tiberian vocalization it appears eight times in one-word prepositional phrases (בַיָּֽם, בָּֽאֵלִם֙, בַּקֹּ֑דֶשׁ, etc.). Indeed, concerning one of our phrases in question, כַּצֹּ֣אן, the term כַּצֹּ֤אן׀ in Ps 49:15 is attested in the Secunda as χασων (https://septuaginta.uni-goettingen.de/hexapla/), lacking the gemination we would expect if read with the definite article. Contrast בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה (Ps 89:44), transcribed as βαμμαλαμα (with gemination) reflecting the definite ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ in the LXX. Thus, the indefinite ὡς πρόβατα (and similar phrases among the Greek revisers) both in Ps 49:15 and 78:52 may lend grammatical support to the anarthrous reading here if reflecting a pronunciation as that of the Secunda. In short, an indefinite rendering is both contextually and grammatically appropriate, despite the Masoretic vocalization.

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On the interpretation of a wayyiqtol introducing an adversative relationship to the preceding discourse, see Khan (forthcoming, Vayyiqṭol, 54-58); cf. vv. 36, 56, 67, 68.

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