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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yorenu (Isaiah 28:26)
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:09:45 -0400

Harold,

Context, as we choose to understand it, may indeed suggest to us to see YORENU as 'he will show him' rather than 'he will show us', but it is still really not clear to me in what sense the "inserted" nun "gives strength and sometimes emphasis to the verbal form". It is really beyond me how a FORM [a meaning?] can be strengthened [energizes?] by a lonely nun.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:

Gabe,
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?


Do you have Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley, also called Gesenius' Hebrew
Grammar? It discusses this issue in #58i. There is a Nun energicum
inserted before the suffix. It is a special added syllable that gives
strength and sometimes emphasis to the verbal form.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

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