Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Dear Moon,

I certainly don't think the Jer text is easy!  Your question was a good
one, and I do not think the use of the infin. absolutes there can be called
common, at least as far as I have noticed, nevertheless, I do think it
essentially adverbial, modifying the participle.  Notice the text crit.
note that suggests the vav before ha$cem should be omitted.  That does
create a little more smoothly flowing read.  You may want to check out
Gesenius, section 113k.

Shalom,
Bryan

You wrote:  
> 
> Does "both a rising early and a sending" modify "I am sending to you",
> as "'abarek:ka" modifies "barek" in "barek `barek:ka"? This thought did 
> not
> occur to me because unlike Gen 22:17, the infinitive does not precede 
> the verb in Jer 26:4-5, and the verb is not a finite verb but a 
> participle.
> Moreover the infinitive clause is preceded by waw in Jer 26:4-5. These
> factors prevented me from thinking of the typical use of infinitive 
> absolute
> as in Gen 22:17. I guess my understanding of infinitive absolute is too 
> limited. 
> 



B. M. Rocine
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