Biblical Hebrew Forum

[decaen AT chass.utoronto.ca (Vincent DeCaen)]

hi randy,

hope things are good for you over there.

well, i think the enjambement idea is probably best, 3+2+3+2 -> 2+2+2+2+2 

for me the decisive argument is the parallel syntax in 6a.

but here's the interesting question. what is X ysovveni, syntactically?
what i want to say is that it's the prefixed form of the so-called
consecutive without the prefixed conjunction.

what do you think?
V
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