Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Is ehyeh in the Hebrew in a predicate position (as
> in... I am ehyeh)? The LXX translate this EGW EIMI hO
> WN (where the name appears to be hO WN, not EGW EIMI),
> but I think I was told that the Hebrew expression here
> for the name of YHWH is not in a predicate position.
> Can somebody please school me on the grammar here? Why
> did the LXX translators use a predicate construct?
> (Also, it would seem to me that the LXX translators
> would have used hO WN with reference to YHWH when they
> translated Isaiah, but you find EGW EIMI.) Any help
> would be appreciated.
>  

HH: There is not really a predicate position in Hebrew, other than a 
word being on the far side of a copulative verb. Predicate position is a 
point of Greek grammar. Ehyeh is a subject and verb combination itself.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard