Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Ron:
How are you translating the verse?

"For the defrauder makes a fool of the wise and makes the heart lost from
narrating (so that it does not narrate)"

($Q to defraud, used in participle, defrauder (in context, the defrauder is
probably death)

YHWLL pilel of HWL to make a fool of.

XKM wise

)BD to become lost, often used as a euphemism for to die, perish.

LB heart.

MTNH prefixed M, TNH to narrate.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Dec 14, 2007 8:18 AM, Ron Snider <sarasotapt AT comcast.net> wrote:

> I am looking at the last portion of Ecclesiastes 7:7, and wonder on how
>
> many occasions any of you are familiar with a masculine noun being used
> with a feminine subject.  A number of commentators state that it is not
> unusual, but they provide no examples.  I know that grammatical gender
> does not always match in the Greek and am inclined to think it is true
> in the Hebrew also.  If anyone has some examples that come to mind, I
> would appreciate any responses.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ron Snider,
> Pastor-teacher