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  • From: "Barry H." <nebarry AT verizon.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Psalm 138:2
  • Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 08:11:21 -0400


----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Barry'" <nebarry AT verizon.net>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:14 PM
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Psalm 138:2


I think the problem with your proposal is that there is no "and" connecting "Your name" and "Your word". How can they both be direct objects without "and" connecting them?

Also, I think it would be bad writing for KoL to act as a noun when it is followed by a noun. The reader would naturally read KoL as modifying the noun which follows it. Ps 103:19 & 145:9 are given by TWOT where KoL acts as a noun, and in both of these it is clear that KoL cannot modify the following verb or noun with conjunction prefix.

I would translate it: For You have magnified Your word based upon Your entire name.

Thanks, Steve, these are precisely the objections that I had in mind when I asked the question, and why I asked if there could then be a hendiadys. Are there any clear examples of hendiades in the Hebrew text? Is it a literary device that would make sense in Hebrew?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics & Bible Instructor @ The American Academy
2010 Salvatori Excellence in Education Winner
http://theamericanacademy.net
Mentor, The North American Reformed Seminary
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