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[<pporta AT oham.net>]

You would be quite right if the noun "glt" exists. But... only "g(w)lh" 
exists as absolute, as I said (Zec 4:3). Then "g(w)lt" must be in construct.

Heartly,

Pere Porta




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 12:6-7


> Pere:
>
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:08 AM, <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:
>
> > >> Are they necessarily construct? Or are they verb subject object
> > phrases?
> > > If they are verb subject object phrases, then this verse has all four
> > > phrases with the same grammatical structure.
> >
> > ___________
> >
> > They are necessarily construct. So I think. "Gulat" is clearly a 
> > construct
> > (see the absolute in Zec 4:3). And "Hebel" is construct too. Look at the
> > A.
> > section in  www.oham.net/out/N-t/N-t081.html
>
>
> The reason I asked is because a feminine noun ending in a tau can be
> absolute. We kid ourselves to think we know Biblical Hebrew well enough to
> say with absolute certainty that GLT and XBL are construct. While it is
> normal that a noun followed by an adjective or noun normally is in
> construct, it is not always so. So we need to leave that door open a 
> crack,
> especially in poetry.
>
> > <http://www.oham.net/out/N-t/N-t081.html>
> >
> > Furthermore remark that the noun which comes some words after "kad" has
> > article (ha-galgal)...
>
>
> Or we could turn the question around, why is it HGLGL instead of GLGL?
>
> > That is why I think that "ha-kad" would be better. And I do not intend, 
> > by
> > no means, to propose a changing of the text: the text must remain as it
> > is.
> > But cientific discussion is always enlightening, so I feel.
> >
> > Heartly,
> >
> > Pere
> > Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
> >
> > Remove the points, and the verse can be read as, "Until which that which
> ties up does not remove the silver, nor that which rolls move the gold, 
> nor
> a storage jar looked to upon stores and the round object (a body is a 
> round
> object that can be rolled, especially if wrapped in grave cloths) moved 
> unto
> the dug out pit." It probably could be translated more smoothly, but you 
> get
> the picture, I hope.
> Karl W. Randolph.
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