Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

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From: CS Bartholomew <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>

> On 9/23/03 11:24 AM, "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com> wrote:
> 
> > It looks as if I stuck my foot in my mouth in not recognizing the 
> > possibility
> > that YWM LYWM is a figure of speech, but grammatically then this figure of
> > speech is the subject of the verb. In this verse it does not look as if 
> > it is
> > used adverbially.
> 
> Karl,
> 
> You have progressed from the improbable to the highly improbable.

How does one learn without asking questions? Sometimes they are dumb 
questions?
> 
> You are now suggesting that ywM lywM functioning as a unit is the
> subject/agent of the verb? Very interesting :-)

All languages have the possibility of several words acting together as a 
unit, either as a subject or an objects of a verb. An extreme example in 
English, “The pirate standing on the ratlines with a pistol in each hand shot 
the captain of the ship being attacked.” The subject is longer than the rest 
of the sentence. Similarly I see the possibility that YWM YWM or YWM LYWM in 
Hebrew is a unit having the meaning of “each day”, and then throw the 
question out to the group, does it make sense?
> 
> BTW, the NIV/NET Bible position is also that of Waltke/O'conner (page 505).
> I suspect Waltke is at the bottom of this. Wasn't he on the editorial
> committee for the NIV OT?
> 
I don’t know about that, as I have not read the NIV except in small excerpts.
> 
> greetings,
> Clay Bartholomew 

Karl W. Randolph.
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