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[<pporta AT oham.net>]

  Yes. But my question is how are these related?
  How does the concept of "opposite" relate to the concept of "to tell"?

  _____

  Let us take for preposition NGD the meaning "in front of".
  If you have something in front of you (say a car, a dog or a rose), usually 
you are seeing it as it really is (though we do not see the intimate nature 
of things), so that its shape, colour, size and so on are clear for you. 
  So a thing that is in front of someone is conspicuous for him (the seer).

  Now, how do we do to make something to be conspicuous, to be clear (to 
others)?  Just by explaining, declaring, telling others about it...

  Is this explanation enough?  Do you feel some step, some ring of the chain 
is lacking here?

  Pere



  pporta AT oham.net wrote: 
I have a question.

Sometimes NGD is translated as "against" or "opposite" or "in front", to
which I can see the relationship between.
But other times it's translated as "tell" or "declare".

I don't see the common link between the idea of "opposite" and "telling".
Can someone please help me understand the relationship between these 
ideas.
    
_________

As a preposition, NGD means "against", "opposite", "in front of"...
But as a verb, NGD means "to be conspicuous". Then the Hiph'il form of verb 
NGD, which in its basic form is HGYD (look at Mi 6:8), means "to cause to be 
conspicuous" ie "to declare", "to explain", "to tell".

Pere 

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In my reading of the Hebrew Bible I am unsure when to read the metheg
as a secondary stress. I have read through Gesenius' section on the
metheg but found it unintelligible. Perhaps someone could provide me
with some specific rules as to when it is not stressed.
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