Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

> > Let me start with II Sam 15:34:
> > The question presented was: How would you translate 'ehyeh ebed abiyka
> > wa'aniy m"'az in this context?
> > 
> > Well, checking the accents we find that "'ehyeh" is NOT in the same phrase
> > as "ebed abiyka" !!
> > 
> > The correct parsing, according to Jewish mesorah is - `avdekha 'ani
> > hamelekh 'ehyeh. Which very simply means I WILL be you servant. 

Obviously this raises a host of other problems, which is why I 
usually don't pay all that much attention to the accentuation except 
in poetry.  I haven't checked it out in detail yet, but this looks like a 
very awkward construction to me, which makes me suspect that 
the accent is in the wrong place.


Dave Washburn
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