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  • From: "Yonah Mishael" <yonahmishael AT gmail.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Judges 16:30 - Verb with no use, MY PROBLEM!
  • Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:32:41 -0500

I would assume that the form WYHYW ויהיו in Judges 16:30 functions as
most wa-cons forms do in a narrative—that is, it establishes this as a
part of the main story line, by which the author is providing primary
information. The point is the culmination of Samson's life as a fight
against the Philistines, the loss of which caused the destruction of
even more of his enemies than the entire period of his life had
realized. This is what I get from it anyway. I don't think it
necessarily has any "becoming" associated with it.

Wouldn't it be most common by the time that the Judges was penned to
express "become" with the HYH plus the L-prefix?

Yours,
Yonah

On 10/3/06, Chris and Nel <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net> wrote:
Judges 16:30

Sorry Folks, but for those who are bemused at my 'daft'? question please
allow me to indulge. For someone who is still young at the art of trying
to understand the hundreds of ways to translate without looking at the
english, YES, Judges 16:30, does present a minor confusion for me. The
context and the word RaBaH (many) seem to me to translate just as well
without the verb "to be"? Now it is obvious that I am utterly wrong - that
I
know! There are myriads of sentences where the verb "to be" is not used and
yet 'known and correctly assumed' from the translation. My problem is that
beginning this particular sentence with that verb actually threw me off
course, when I continued to translate it as if the verb was not there then
to my shock I actually translated it correctly (Mmmm, now that's a miracle).
This shows that I am doing something wrong (even though I got the answer
correct). I am so used to
reading sentences without "to be " in them that I still can not fathom its
purpose here, considering that without it I actually arrived at the correct
translation without looking at the English.

Now can someone be kind enough pleeeease..... to relieve me of my making a
fool of
myself on this board?

Chris

Ireland.


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