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  • From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] 1 Sam 1:28 asked. Karl
  • Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:16:28 -0700

Chris:

Verse 25 and following, context, she was addressing Eli directly.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 10/28/06, Chris and Nel <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net> wrote:
Ok Karl,

That is logical, but how can anyone arrive at that in the hiphil? "I ask"
should then have been in the qal imperfect with Vav consecutive (I'm doing
my best here) or by a totally other construction, (if she was addressing Eli
directly with this question/statement then this would be clear) so obviously
this can not be the writer's intention.

I'm still lost then to the hiphil here.

regards, chris


> Chris:
>
> Look again at the context. Especially verse 11. "Lent" is an incorrect
> translation. A more correct yet not too rigidly Hebraic translation,
> "I ask that he be for the Lord all his days, he was asked to be for
> the Lord." In other words, she was asking Eli to take her son to be
> with him in God's service.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.




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