Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Herman Meester <crazymulgogi AT gmail.com>]

Harold,
I think, if בראשית b'reshit is a construct (which I believe), it is
not ברא bara which is the complement to the construct, but ברא אלהים
את השמים ואת הארץ bara elohim et hashshamayim w'et ha'aretz. (this
clause as a whole)
Herman
PS I'll take a good look at the examples you gave; hope to be able to
comment later.

2005/11/23, Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>:

> HH: There are verses where there is a preposition followed by a noun in
> the construct, followed by a verb that seems to be in relation to the
> noun (1 Chron. 29:3: "above all I provided"), but they don't seem to
> require the insertion of "of" in English the way Gen 1:1 would by your
> view. Another example might be Prov 17:4 ("before a quarrel breaks
> out"), but here the preposition and noun function together as a preposition.
>
> HH: Another difficulty with your view is that it gives an imperfect
> meaning to the perfect verb arb, it seems to me. There is a process of
> creating, and at the beginning of it something happens. Also, where
> there is a verb in a construct relationship to a prepositional phrase
> and a possible modification with "of" in English, it usually involves an
> infinitive, such as we see at Gen 2:4: "in the day of the Lord's making
> earth and heaven."
>
> Yours,
> Harold Holmyard
>
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