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[Jay Frank <jif_mail AT mac.com>]

On this day, you will surely die!

But, of course, they didn't. And it can reasonably argued that the  
same is true of Shimei in 1 Kings 2:36-46. Alter, in his The Five  
Books of Moses, writes ...

> The form of the Hebrew in both instances is what grammarians call  
> the infinitive absolute: the infinitive immediately followed by a  
> conjugated form of the same verb. The general effect of this  
> representation is to add emphasis to the verb, but because in the  
> case of the verb "to die" it is the pattern regularly used in the  
> Bible for the issuing of death sentences, "doomed to die" is an  
> appropriate equivalent.

Interestingly, Targum Pseudo-Jonathan reads "for in the day that thou  
eatest thou wilt be guilty of death."

What support, if any, can be offered for this rendering? Thanks.
> From kwrandolph AT gmail.com  Wed Nov 29 10:41:32 2006
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On 11/28/06, Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/25/06, K Randolph wrote:
>
> > All I say is that if the BGDKPT letters originally had only one sound,
> > then many words would be unpronounceable unless each consonant is
> > followed by a vowel. Examples include Rebecca (modern Hebrew Rivkah)
> > and Capernaum (Kfar Nachum).
>
> If you look up the following article:
>  F. C. B.  CAPERNAUM, CAPHARNAUM J Theol Studies 1933 os-XXXIV: 385-390
> http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/os-XXXIV/136/385
Another article behind a firewall to keep the non-academician out.

Karl W. Randolph.