Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Harold,

Context, as we choose to understand it, may indeed suggest to us to  
see YORENU as 'he will show him' rather than 'he will show us', but  
it is still really not clear to me in what sense the "inserted" nun  
"gives strength and sometimes emphasis to the verbal form". It is  
really beyond me how a FORM [a meaning?] can be strengthened  
[energizes?] by a lonely nun.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jun 29, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Harold Holmyard wrote:

> 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
>
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