Biblical Hebrew Forum

[MarianneLuban AT aol.com]

In a message dated 10/6/2004 9:39:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
hholmyard AT ont.com writes:


> >I don't know how much relevancy can be attributed--but "ink" is a personal
> >pronoun in Egyptian.  It means "I am" and is only seen at the start 
> >of a clause.
> 
> 
> HH: In Hebrew )NKY does not have to be the first word of a clause. 
> See Genesis 3:10 and 4:9.
> 

One doesn't count preliminary qualifiers as "And he said", does one?  Isn't 
the statement of the person a clause in itself?  Well, my rules of grammar 
may 
be rusty, but in Egyptian, this independent pronoun would certainly also be 
followed by a qualifier  like "Dd.n=f" or "he said" (in the case of a male) . 
 
The pronoun was first written as "nwki" and then later as "ink", "nwk" and 
"inwk".  Sir Alan Gardiner wrote:  "This series (of independent pronouns) is 
closely connected with the personal pronouns in Hebrew and Arabic."

Marianne Luban