Biblical Hebrew Forum

[peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Your students have found some interesting questions! On this one, I 
happened to spot today at Psalm 50:13 a case where there are 
apparently two questions, though closely linked with one another, with 
the HA- prefix on the first one only and the second question 
introduced only with W:-. I wonder, is this a regular construction? 
GKC 150h offers a string of examples in Job only (as a variant of the 
common case in which the second question is introduced by )IM, 
sometimes disjunctive and sometimes simply parallel) In GKC 150m there 
are cases where HA- is attached to the first of two clauses but 
properly applies to the second only e.g. Numbers 32:6, 16:22(?), Jer 
8:4; but that doesn't apply to Ruth 1:11!

Peter Kirk


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Subject: WeHFYUW in Ruth 1:11
Author:  zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph at internet
Date:    19/03/1999 11:58


One last question from today's meeting with the students drafting 
a translation of Ruth:

We looked up in W&O the section which discusses the weqatalti 
after nominal clauses (32.2.4), which treats the WeHFYUW in Ruth 
1:11 as introducing a consequent situation.  However, we played 
with some other ways that the concept here could have been 
expressed and possible differences in translations.  How would 
you compare and contrast the form found here (weqatalti) with the 
following possibilities:  1) a "normal" relative clause 
introduced by KIY, and 2) a completely separate question, 
introduced by a second heh-interrogative?  Am I off-base to see 
this use of the weqatalti as falling somewhere in between the 
relative clause and the completely separate question?

Paul

--
Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran 
Ibanag Translation Project
Cabagan, Philippines

zellmer AT faith.edu.ph





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