386 E.D. Reymond usage of hmmd in these passages allows a derivation from d-m-m I. Nevertheless, we should look more closely at these passages since they are so numerous. At first glance, it would seem that they offer evidence for the meaning “murmur” or “sighing” for hmmd. This is for two reasons: first, the word hmmd occurs immediately after lwq, apparently modifying lwq as an adjectival genitive; second, the word hmmd occurs once in construct with another word for silence, fqv. The first of these reasons is not as clear-cut as it might first appear. As we have already observed, words meaning silence can modify verbs of speech; it seems likely, therefore, that words denoting an absence of sound (especially loud sounds) can modify nouns that denote sound. The second reason is a bit more complicated. In 4Q405 19ABCD, 7, we find fqç tmmd lwq; following the syntax of the 1 Kgs passage, fqç should (most likely) be modifying the preceding hmmd, which is modifying the preceding lwq. In this context, the alternative understandings of hmmd seem more likely; translations like “quiet sighing” or “quiet whisper” are not redundant. Although this is the case, one should take into account the context of these phrases before using them as evidence for the meaning “whisper” or “sighing”. The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice is full of redundancies; the most relevant are those that set two near synonyms in construct with each other. Note, for example, “He will n[o]t show compassion in the dominion of the fury (hrb[) of his annihila[ting wra]th (ˆwrj)” (4Q405 23 I, 12) (39). Given such subtle use of vocabulary, we might hypothesize that the qualification of hmmd by fqç implies that the sense of hmmd in this passage is the absence of agitated motion (40). We may now summarize what has been discovered about hmmd in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The word occurs in contexts where it cannot mean “sighing” or “murmuring” or denote a “low sound”, but rather phrase, “still[ness] of divine blessing”, which suggests a connection between stillness and divinity, which, in turn, presumes a connection to 1 Kgs 19,12 and/or Job 4,16. (39) The translation is that of NEWSOM, “Shirot ‘Olat Hashabbat”, 357. The Hebrew reads: wn[wrj t]lk trb[ tlçmmb μjry a[w]l. Similar expressions are found in 4Q403 1 I, 6 = Mas1k II, 16 [rmz] tlht = rmz tl[ht] “psalm of praisesong” (NEWSOM, “Shirot ‘Olat Hashabbat”, 245); μymlw[ ymjr twjyls “eternal compassionate forgiveness” (NEWSOM, “Shirot ‘Olat Hashabbat”, 178). Even more obvious redundancies occur with words derived from the same root, as in 4Q403 1 I, 33: “exalt his exaltedness to exalted heaven” (NEWSOM, “Shirot ‘Olat Hashabbat”, 271). (40) This is the understanding of the phrase implicit in Newsom’s translation.