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  • From: "George F. Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>
  • To: leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] What means, "beyn mayim lamayim"?
  • Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:51:31 -0400

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:43:49 +0200 "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
writes:
> > 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
>
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Why not? Isn't a participle by definition a verbal adjective and can be
used as a noun?

gfsomsel




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