Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear James,

> Just out of interest do you see morning and evening as 
> subjects of wayhiy or as objects? They seem to me to 
> be subjects with the sense of 'And then night fell and 
> then morning arose' or 'and then the night came and 
> then the morning came' or something like that? What do 
> you think?
>  

HH: They can't be objects, since the verb doesn't take objects. Yes, 
they are the implied subjects, and "came" is a legitimate translation 
for the verb.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard