Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>]

Dear George et al,
More examples:
In Exodus 6:28, the pointing of BeYOM shows it to be construct.
Other constructs with finite verbs following are Gen.1:1; Lev. 25:48;
Num. 3:1; Deu. 4:15; 2 Sam 22:1; Psa. 18:1; 56:10; 102:3;
116:2;  Hosea 1:2, and  Zech. 8:9.
Lee R. Martin

Bryan Rocine wrote:

> Shalom, George,
>
> surprise, surprise!  a qatal is attested following a construct form a
> handful of times, for example, Lev 14:46, 1 sam 25:15, Psa 129:6, Isa 29:1,
> Jer 48:36.   that crazy Hebrew language, eh?
>
> Shalom, shalom,
> Bryan
>
> ----------
> From: George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Gen 1:1-2
> Date: Tuesday, January 05, 1999 5:03 PM
>
> Tony Prete wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > The basic reason, I believe, was already mentioned by someone earlier:
> R"'$iYT is a construct, so that it might be translated: "the beginning
> of..." (it's the B: which is the preposition, added to the front of the
> word "beginning")
> >
> > But the question remains: Why a construct? I think that the various
> translations--and the NJPS (cited earlier by Irene Rienger) seems to have
> succeeded the best--are efforts to answer that question. I suspect we
> simply don't have a way of saying in English what the text says in Hebrew.
>
> If REŠIYT was in construct, then we would not expect a finite verb to
> follow it. We would expect perhaps an infinitive of some sort. This is not
> what we have in the MT. We have a finite verb with a subject and two direct
> objects. As such, REŠIYT must be either a conjunction or
> circumstance. Since it is prefixed with a preposition (B), which has not
> subsumed a definite article, we must understand the first word of Genesis
> as simply meaning, "At first".
>
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