Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear kgraham,

> d. Taking all of that and putting it together is where they get the 
> compound subject.  But the translator note that they cannot find a 
> similar syntax to this passage, so I think there is a little 
> guessing going on here.
>
> That is why there translation says " Can you people who are like 
> iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?"

HH: It is much simply grammatically to understand an indefinite 
subject and then an apposition. The HCSB also has:

Can anyone smash iron,
iron from the north, or bronze?

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard