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  • From: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] yorenu (Isaiah 28:26)
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:40:57 +0000

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Gabe Eisenstein wrote:
> 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?

To add to all that has been written, n has a dagesh here, and the vowel
is seghol. Compare Isaiah 2:3 where the vowel is tsere, and there is no
dagesh. The significant part, as far as the nun energicum, is the dagesh.

For the nun energicum, see
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2007-December/034652.html

Yitzhak Sapir




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