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  • From: Jay Frank <jif_mail AT mac.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Gen. 2:16-17 :: idiom or clumsy lie
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:01:06 -0600

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.
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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.




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