[b-hebrew] yorenu (Isaiah 28:26)
Yitzhak Sapir
yitzhaksapir at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 23:40:57 EDT 2008
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Gabe Eisenstein wrote:
> Isaiah 28:26 = /vayisro l'mishpat elohaiv yorenu/
>
> English translations always render something like: "His God
> instructs/chastises him to judgment, and teaches him."
>
> My question concerns deriving "teaches HIM" from /yorenu/. I would
> think that the translation would be "he will teach US". Yet all the
> translations agree. What am I missing?
To add to all that has been written, n has a dagesh here, and the vowel
is seghol. Compare Isaiah 2:3 where the vowel is tsere, and there is no
dagesh. The significant part, as far as the nun energicum, is the dagesh.
For the nun energicum, see
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-hebrew/2007-December/034652.html
Yitzhak Sapir
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