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Re: strings of nouns/adjectives

From: Yigal Levin <Yigal-Levin AT utc.edu>
To: Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky <hermeneutics AT kulikovskyonline.net>, Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: strings of nouns/adjectives
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:23:27 -0400

At 04:13 PM 9/5/2002 +0200, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky wrote:
>Another syntax question.
>
>In Gen 1:20, the waters are to teem with "sherez nephesh chayyah"
>
>Now, is this two separate objects? Swarming things AND living, breathing
>things.
>
>Or a single object? Swarming, living breathing things.
>
>In the latter case, the noun sherez would function as an adjective.
>

I would read it as a construct, with "sherez" meaning "brood" (offspring):
"the offspring of living things that are in the water".

Dr. Yigal Levin
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue
Chattanooga TN 37403-2598
U.S.A.

strings of nouns/adjectives, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/05/2002
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