Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Blankinship, Benjamin" <bla26 AT co.henrico.va.us>]

> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:06:54 -0500
> From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 12:3
> To: Chris Gummer <chrisgumms AT hotmail.com>
> Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, kgraham0938 AT comcast.net
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> It is probably only a slip of pen, but in Genesis 12:3 ("And I will  
> bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee") there  
> are many blessers but only one curser. Blessers has two successive  
> suffixes (attached personal pronouns), as in English, but curser=curs 
> +er has only one, as in English.

I never noticed that. The NLT and NIV missed it, too (NLT: "and curse
those who curse you" NIV: "whoever curses you I will curse"). Is there a
consensus as to significance of "him that curseth thee"? Or is it a
synecdoche for "all those who curse you"?

-- 
Ben Blankinship
Richmond, VA