Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Chris:

This is just one more example of how Biblical Hebrew and modern English 
differ.

Hebrew used a participle with a personal pronoun suffix to indicate a
person doing something for or to the person indicated in the suffix.
But to indicate the same idea in English requires a phrase such as
"Those who (verb) for (suffix) ...", so here we deal not with the
meaning in Hebrew, but with the art of translation.

Karl W. Randolph.

On 1/22/07, Chris Gummer <chrisgumms AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
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> In Genesis 12:3, M:BFR:KEYKA, appears to be often translated as "those who
> bless you".
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> However, all I see is a participle form of BRK with a possessive 2ms suffix.
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> What is the correct parsing and why is it translated as "those who bless
> you"?
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> Thanks,
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> Chris Gummer.
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