E-book Biblical Hebrew Poetry and Word Play - Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience

by David Steinberg
Steinberg

Edition 1.
20 September 2011

Lament of David (II Samuel 1:191:19-27)

Reconstructed Late First Temple Orthography and Vocalization (EBHP) with Sound Files

by David Steinberg
David.Steinberg@houseofdavid.ca
Home page http://www.houseofdavid.ca/

N.b. The Guidelines I Have Used in Reconstructing the Pronunciation of First

Temple Period Hebrew are found at http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_6.htm#guidelines
For convenience of students I have generally laid out the poetry as in modern
translations.

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Reconstructed Late First Temple Orthography and Vocalization (EBHP) with Sound Files
by David Steinberg
Steinberg
Verse

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed
Reconstructed Text

[EBHP]
EBHP]1

/EBHP/+2

JEH Style Spelling

Masoretic Text3

(9th- 6th c.
c. BCE)
BCE)

19

20

hssby yal

haby yirael

l-ba motyk xlal

lal

cal-ba(
)mtayka(
tay ) 4

yk nplu gbbo im
im

ayk napl gib.. bo rm

l-tggi
gi du bgtt

al-taggi
gi d bgtt

l-tbu b u sot

al-tbar b u t

klon
on

aqln

pn-tmxn

pin-tima
mana( )

bno t pltim
im

bnt pltm
1

alal
lal

E-book Biblical Hebrew Poetry and Word Play - Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience by David Steinberg
Steinberg

Verse

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed
Reconstructed Text

[EBHP]
EBHP]1

/EBHP/+2

JEH Style Spelling

Masoretic Text3

(9th- 6th c.
c. BCE)
BCE)

pn-tlzn bnot

pin-tcluzna(
) bnt
luz

h.. lim
im

ha.. rilm

MP3 sound file

21

hy bgglbo
bo

harray baggilbo
bo c

l-tll wl-mta

al-all wal-maa r

lykm

claykim

wdy tu mot
ot

waday tru mt

ki mm ngl

ki amm nigcal

mgnn gbbo im
im

maginn gibbo rm

mgnn u l

maginn au l

bly mi bmn

bly mai baamn

MP3 sound file

22

mddm xllim
im

middam lalm

mlb gbbo im
im

miilb gibbo rm

kt yho nta
ta n

qat yho nata

ta n

lo no g xo

l nao g ao r

wb u l

warb au l

lo tb ka
a m

5 re
l taub
qa
ta
qa m

MP3 sound file

23

u l wyho nta
ta n

au l wyho nata
ta n

hnnhbim
im

hannihabm

whnni mim
im

whann ci mm

byyykm

bayyaykim
kim

wbm
wta
ta m

wbmawta( )m
m

lo npdu

l niprad
ra

mnnim
im kllu

minnarm qall
qal

myot
ot gbu

mirayt gabir
bi

MP3 sound file

E-book Biblical Hebrew Poetry and Word Play - Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience by David Steinberg
Steinberg

Verse

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed Vocalization

Reconstructed
Reconstructed Text

[EBHP]
EBHP]1

/EBHP/+2

JEH Style Spelling

Masoretic Text3

(9th- 6th c.
c. BCE)
BCE)

24

bno t yal

bnt yirael

l-u l bkyna

il-au l bkayna(
)
ay

hmmlbi km ni
ni

hammalbi kim
kim ani
ni

mm dnim

cimm danm

hmml dy zha
ha b

hammacl cdy zaha

ha b

l-lbu knn

cal-lbu
kinn
kinn

MP3 sound file

25

26

yk nplu gbbo im
im

ayk napl gibbo rm

bt
wk hmml.. m

btawk hammilam

yho nta
ta n

yho nata
ta n

l-ba motyka

cal-ba()mtayka(
tay )6

xlal
lal

alal
lal

s
s li lyka xi

arr l calayka(
lay ) a

yho nta
ta n

yho nata
ta n

nmta li md

nacamta(
am ) l mud

nplta hbtka li

niplta( ) ahbatka( ) l

mhbt nim
im

miahbat nam

MP3 sound file

27

yk nplu gbbo im
im

ayk napl gibbo rm

wyyo bdu klyy

wayybd kilyay milam

ml.. m
MP3 sound file

Note, in reconstructed [EBHP] transliterations and sound files 1.there is no spirantization of the bgdkpt consonants - http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_tequ.htm#bgdpt;
2. vowel qualities are outlined here -

http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_6.htm#ebhp_vow_qual;

E-book Biblical Hebrew Poetry and Word Play - Reconstructing the Original Oral, Aural and Visual Experience by David Steinberg
Steinberg

3. I use the most probable form. Where no one form stands out as most probable, I select the one closest
to the MT vocalization.
4. when multiple forms are possible, the form used is underlined.
2

See Phones and Phonemes - http://www.houseofdavid.ca/anc_heb_6.htm#phone_phonym.

From The Westminster Leningrad Codex http://www.tanach.us/.

See Joon-Muraoka 1991 97Eb.

Nb. PCpret_sim taub,

not PCimp taub see ta

- http://www.adath-shalom.ca/history_of_hebrew3a.htm#indic_jus AND
- http://www.adath-shalom.ca/history_of_hebrew3a.htm#Prefix_Conjugation
6

See Joon-Muraoka 1991 97Eb.