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  • From: waldo slusher <waldoslusher AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 1:5
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 08:52:08 -0700 (PDT)


Frank Polak wrote earlier:

> In my view the cardinal )xd serves as ordinal (the
> ordinal for 'first'
> varies extremely in all semitic languages, in sharp
> contrast with the
> toher ordinals and the rather fixed mode of the
> cardinals).

Would you therefore allow for this translation of the
Shema, taking )xd here as ordinal even though )xd
lacks the defininte article:

Listen, Israel: As for the Lord your God, the Lord is
first.

But how would be understand "first"?


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Waldo Slusher
Calgary, AB

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