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  • From: peter_kirk AT SIL.ORG
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: WeHFYUW in Ruth 1:11
  • Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 00:04:35 -0500


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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