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  • From: "Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>
  • To: Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Proverbs 5:16 - a declaration or a question ?
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:29:55 -0500

Harold:

The verb is plural third person, but the subject is PLGY MYM.

M(YNTYK cannot be the subject, as it has a prefixed M- short for MN which can
never be the subject of the verb.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>

>
> Dear Karl,
>
> > Ignore other translations and traditions, what are the
> > grammatical reasons not to read:
> >
> > M(YNTYK as a simple plural of (YN meaning eyes? Almost all the
> > time (YN is in dual. But is it not a feminine noun, so the simple
> > plural would end in -WT ? Correct me if I am wrong.
> >
> > That would make the translation "Be dispersed away from your eyes
> > outwards into the broad streets (broad areas?) the channels of
> > water", in other words a poetic way of saying not to look at
> > other sources, so within the context not to be looking at other
> > women?
>
> HH: The verb "dispersed" is a Qal 3mp imperfect, not a 2mp
> imperative. So the phrase M(YNTYK is the subject of the verb.
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
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