[b-hebrew] Genesis 2:6

Peter Kirk peterkirk at qaya.org
Sun Sep 25 19:26:07 EDT 2005


On 25/09/2005 20:47, Vadim Cherny wrote:

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>"Man" (2:5) is the *only* antecedent to "he" implied in the 3rd person verb 
>at the beginning of 2:6. ...
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Since "man" is negated in v.5, he cannot be the subject of v.6. If you 
need to supply a subject for v.6, it is more likely to be YHWH Elohim. 
But then you have the inconvenient word 'ED, which can hardly be a verb. 
For there is no verb root alef-holam-dalet in biblical Hebrew.


>...
>2:7 also seems to indicate that it was the man who breathed the dust, not 
>God who breathed it into the man. ...
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No it does not. 'ADAM is explicitly marked as the object in this verse 
with the marker 'ET. The subject of the first verb is in its commonest 
position, after a clause initial verb, and is YHWH Elohim, and in the 
absence of any other explicit marker in a WAYYIQTOL chain he is also the 
subject of the second verb.


>... A possible reason to mention that detail 
>is that the land was dusty, not irrigated yet.
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Which is a very odd conclusion considering that the verse before has 
just said that it was irrigated.

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