Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 29/09/2004 05:56, C. Stirling Bartholomew wrote:

> ...
>
> > Your examples might then translate into Engish as:
> >
> > "As for Esau, he is Edom" and "As for Yahweh, he is God".
> >
> > What do you make of this?
> >    
>
> David K., sounds like good Russian syntax :-)
> What to you make of this Peter &  Dave W?
>
>  
On second thoughts, this would not be good Russian. It would be 
grammatical Russian, but would be rather unusual. This type of 
construction is found at Gen 36:8 in the Russian Synodal translation, 
literally "Esau, he also Edom", "also" is a barely translatable particle.

But at 1 Kings 18:39 the Russian Synodal is "Lord is God", with a rarely 
used and emphatic word "is" or "exists".

But the Russian is not Hebrew, not even close, so any resemblances may 
be accidental.


--
Peter Kirk
peter AT qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/