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  • From: Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
  • To: "C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Re: Hebrew "Nominative"
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:21:00 +0100

On 29/09/2004 05:56, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

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Your examples might then translate into Engish as:

"As for Esau, he is Edom" and "As for Yahweh, he is God".

What do you make of this?


David K., sounds like good Russian syntax :-)
What to you make of this Peter & Dave W?


On second thoughts, this would not be good Russian. It would be grammatical Russian, but would be rather unusual. This type of construction is found at Gen 36:8 in the Russian Synodal translation, literally "Esau, he also Edom", "also" is a barely translatable particle.

But at 1 Kings 18:39 the Russian Synodal is "Lord is God", with a rarely used and emphatic word "is" or "exists".

But the Russian is not Hebrew, not even close, so any resemblances may be accidental.


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