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Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19

From: ben.crick AT argonet.co.uk (Ben and Jo Crick)
To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
Subject: Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 21:18:43 +0100

On Fri 6 Sep 2002 (18:34:23 +0200), hermeneutics AT kulikovskyonline.net wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions why yamim is translated "years"
> instead of "days"?

This is a figure of speech; synechdoche, the part for the whole, or /pars
pro toto/.

In Ezekiel 4:6 a "day" specifically stands for a "year". YoWM La$$aNaH
YoWM La$$aNaH.

Genesis 47:9 shows a pleonastic construction, "the days of the years of my
pilgrimage, etc". Y:MeY $:NeY M:GuWRaY... Y:MeY $:NeY XaYYaY... W:'eT-Y:MeY
$:NeY XaYYeY 'a:BoTaY.

$aNaH Xa:Da$aH +oBaH

Ben
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timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/05/2002
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- RE: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Trevor & Julie Peterson, 09/05/2002
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- RE: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/05/2002
- RE: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Trevor Peterson, 09/05/2002
- Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/06/2002
- Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Joe Sprinkle, 09/07/2002
- Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Joe Sprinkle, 09/07/2002
- Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky, 09/07/2002
- Re: timing in 2 Chron 21.19, Ben and Jo Crick, 09/07/2002