[Mesorah] FW: grammatical query

Micha Berger micha at aishdas.org
Tue Oct 24 14:49:39 PDT 2006


R' Akiva Atwood sent me the following and asked that you send replied to
<gila at atwood.co.il>

-mi

Shoftim 16:19  'vatgalach'  .. pi'el or pa'al?   Did Delilah cause her
manservant to do the shaving (many translations) or did she do it herself
and just have the manservant handy in case she needed him for self
protection/in case Shimshon tried to stop her?

If she did it herself , how would the word look different? I'm assuming
nikud was added later.                  ty




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