Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

Steve:

QNH means to acquire and hold, but it doesn’t specify the means by which the 
acquisition is accomplished. Purchase is just one of the possibilities.

Karl W. Randolph.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: George F Somsel
> TEXT:
> 
> W:)fMaR Lo) NfBiY) )fNoKiY )iY$_(oB"D )a:DfMfH )fNoKiY K.iY )fDfM HiQ:N"NiY
> MiN.:(W.RfY
> 
> HALOT notes that the text is uncertain here and gives a conjectural reading
> of )fDfM HiQ:NaNiY, but I don't think that solves your problem.  I think
> your problem is more in trying to import concepts from English into Hebrew.
> Perhaps changing the English equivalent slightly will clarify the matter.
> QNH does not simply mean "buy" but "acquire" and thus the hiphil would be
> "cause to acquire."  BDB gives "caused (one) to purchase me ."
> -------------
> Thanks George. QNH does mean aquire, but aquire by paying some price. If
> someone gave you a gift, or you inherited it, then you did not QNH it.
> The BDB translation makes "me" the object of the purchasing, but "me" should
> be the one who did the purchasing.
> -Steve Miller
> Detroit

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