Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

Gabe,
> Isaiah 28:26 = /vayisro l'mishpat elohaiv yorenu/
>
> English translations always render something like: "His God 
> instructs/chastises him to judgment, and teaches him."
>
> My question concerns deriving "teaches HIM" from  /yorenu/. I would 
> think that the translation would be "he will teach US". Yet all the 
> translations agree. What am I missing?
>   

Do you have Gesenius-Kautzsch-Cowley, also called Gesenius' Hebrew 
Grammar? It discusses this issue in  #58i.  There is a Nun energicum 
inserted before the suffix. It is a special added syllable that gives 
strength and sometimes emphasis to the verbal form.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard