Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bill Ross" <wross AT farmerstel.com>]

<Randall>
>>The significance is that the 'believing' is not implied to have begun at
story moment of 15.6 and it is not implied to have been completed at that
point. Avraham's 'believing' is being described as a process.
(Theoretically, it could include the actions of chapter 12 and be left open
for chapters 17 and 22. )

<Bill>
I don't read Hebrew, so I'm trying to relate what you say to what I read in
the KJV.

Is there anything to learn about the wording "it" being counted as
righteousness. Is "it" in the Hebrew? Is "it" understood to agree to
something singular, as opposed to the lengthy disposition you describe? An
event? Ie: "Abram counted the promise as faithfulness."

<Randall>
>>>>As for translation, that is a whole 'nother game. One could bring out
different aspects or expectations,
perhaps starting from:

"Avram was believing and he counted it for him as a good deed."

<Bill>
Back to my original question, then: who is "he"?

Bill Ross