Biblical Hebrew Forum

["K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Kelton:

On 10/5/06, kgraham0938 AT comcast.net <kgraham0938 AT comcast.net> wrote:
> So that is how I have always seen it, not to be say this is a trump card or anything 
> but just my understanding of it and where it came from.  And with regards to Gen 2:25 
> when you said "they came into a state of being naked."  Were'nt they already 
> naked?   It does not seems to me that they were becoming nake but already naked.

This is not a case of nakedness vs. clothed, rather between being and 
non-being.

> ...  Another example I'd like to get your opinion on is 2 Chr 20:25.
>
> vayih:yw yamiym $:lo$h boz:ziym , it looks to me that the verb is functioning 
> more like a past progressive 'were plundering.'  What are your thoughts?
>
> --
> Kelton Graham
> KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net

What is the subject of YHYW? I read it as YMYM $LW$H three days. There
was so much booty that "it became three days" they were plundering the
booty.

Karl W. Randolph.