Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 9/4/04 7:26 PM, "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com> wrote:

> It is interesting that with the noun-noun chain bigdey hassrad in Ex 35:19
> we *cannot* accept that the genitive hassrad is attributive.  The semantics
> of hassrad force us to see it as an expression of purpose, *like I alledge
> for haqqodesh*.
> 

I don't follow you, so I will let someone else comment on this.

> When the word haqqodesh by itself
> means "the holy place" there is no genitive.  Why bring it up?

Ex. 35:19 )t-bgdy h&rd l$rt bqd$ )t-bgdy hqd$ l)hrN hkhN w)t-bgdy bnyw lkhN

I am reading bqd$ here as a "deep structure" genitive.

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew