Biblical Hebrew Forum

["C. Stirling Bartholomew" <jacksonpollock AT earthlink.net>]

On 2/18/05 3:09 AM, "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org> wrote:

> Of course, KIY gives the reason, and needs to be rendered in English by
> something like "for" or "because", with "for" as a conjunction. No one
> is doubting that. The issue is a quite separate one: is the temporal
> phrase to be understood like English "in six days" or more like English
> "for six days"?

I agree that the syntactical and semantic function of ky isn't the issue and
as always, focusing on the English translation befogs the question
concerning the semantic function of  $$t-ymyM. The constituent $$t-ymyM
refers to a contiguous period of six days duration and the most lucid means
of bringing this into English is "in six days" but the English preposition
"in" is a necessary periphrastic addition following the LXX en ex hmerais.

> Presumably if C's "for six days" alternative actually means anything
> different from "in six days" ...

This is an argument from an English text ...

greetings,
Clay Bartholomew