Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 10:59 AM 12/30/2004, you wrote:
> >Is there anything which would contribute to translating one way or the
> other?
>
> I think this aspect of the question remains unanswered.

I thought this was a sufficient answer- as it shows that the KJV 
understands the verse following the Vulgate, not the Hebrew text.

> The simple, straightforward exposition (translation) of the phrase in
> hebrew is "marvelous advisor" or the more common "wonderful counselor".

To be sure, participles sometimes function as nouns- but in this case it is 
a "hendiadys" with the noun preceding it.

Best

Jim


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