Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:13:35 -0500 "Dora Smith" <villandra AT austin.rr.com>
> writes:
> > In Genesis, 1:6, it says that "there was divided" "among/ between
> > waters
> > to/for the waters (vayihiy or viyih mav'diyl, beyn mayi'm
> > lamayi'ym.)
> >
> > How does this translate?

Folks: might the word "mavdil" not be a noun, "divider" - "and the was (or
'came to be') a DIVIDER between water and water"?

Yigal