3/28/2023 0 Comments Level 83 words of wonder![]() The suggestion is that מופת is a shortened form of מאפת. אפת: This approach is taken in the Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon. Of course, the response would be that our word is evidence for it, 36 times.)ģ. (Most scholars would not agree that there is a root יפת in Biblical Hebrew. He writes that a מופת is a sign whose purpose is to cause one to believe in something that is to occur in the future. Radak, in his Sefer Ha-Shorashim, is another who believes that the root is יפת. Hirsch believes מופת is in the hiphil, and literally means “to cause to be open.” Accordingly, מופת is a sign that forces one to be open to (=take notice of) a teaching. Hirsch also reads the “open” meaning into the word יפתה at Deut. ![]() פתה means “open” in Aramaic and most likely it has this meaning at Prov. He suggests that this root is related to the root פתה. Hirsch is one who takes this approach to our word. Mandelkern categorizes our word in this root and (writing in 1896) claims that most scholars agree.Ģ. יפה: As a verb, this means “to be beautiful.” S. With that background, let us look at the various approaches to the root of מופת:ġ. For example, in the root ידע, that yod turns to a vav in the various forms of the word, e.g., הודיע (=make known). ![]() When one sees a vav as a first root letter in a form of a word, this means that the first root letter was really a yod. Also, vav is almost never the first root letter in a Hebrew word. The initial מ is typically added to the root letters to turn the verb into a noun. The מ letters at the beginning of a noun are almost always not root letters. So we easily see that the root can imply something that will come true in the future.) What is the root of מופת? (With regard to the parallel word אות, many believe it is related to the root אתא, which means “come.” See, e.g., Deut. When a sign comes true, it serves as a verification of a previous prediction. 20:3, the מופת = the prophet’s walking naked and barefoot predicts and symbolizes a future shameful event. ![]() Other times מופת refers to a sign that is a prediction. Or see Joel 3:3 about the future day of judgment: “dam, va-esh, ve-timrot ashan” and the next verse about the sun turning to darkness. Sometimes it refers to supernatural events/wonders like the ten plagues. The word מופת or its plural appears 36 times in Tanach. ![]()
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