Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joseph Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>]

Greetings

SFQOL YISSF"L -Ex 21:28a

Most translations go with "it shall be stoned." Is this the correct 
understanding or is the combination "infinitive absolute + prefix" convey 
the idea of "it is liable to be stoned" or "it may be stoned?" Which makes 
the punishment more open to application in each case. Does this apply to 
Lev. 20:10 "he shall be put to death" taken to mean "he is liable to 
execution?" Does this construction and its understanding only apply to 
legal texts?

Thanks
Brian Tucker
Riverview, MI
music AT riverviewcog.org