Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Giuseppe Regalzi" <regalzi AT tiscalinet.it>]

Liz Fried wrote:

> The translation of this passage seems perfectly clear and
> obvious to me, yet I haven't seen one commentator translate it
> this way ... My translation is: "none of us took off our
> clothes, or even went to the bathroom." literally, it reads "nor
> sent out water."

If this were the case, I would expect to read something like:

w:'en 'i$ m:$alleax hammayim

or:

'i$ nikla' mi$$all:xo hammayim, "each refrained from etc."

Still, I feel there is something sound in your suggestion... Maybe
the original text underwent a homoioteleuton:

'i$ $ilxo <b:yado gam b:$all:xo> hammayim, "each kept his spear in
his hand, even while he was etc."

What do you think?

Regards,

Giuseppe Regalzi

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