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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 12:6: BWR
  • Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:09:50 +0100

The last words in Ecc 12:6 are "el ha-bor", to the well.
I'm wondering why preposition "el" and not preposition "b" is used here.
Namely, why "el ha-bor" and not "ba-bor" (last word in Gn 40:15).

Does "el" mean that the "galgal" breaks and its broken pieces fall into the well?

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)




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