Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Phil Sumpter" <philsumpter AT hotmail.com>]

Two questions:

(1) In Psalm 24:6, is "dor" a construct or absolute noun? Logos' Westminster 
morphology goes with the former (construct), Andersen-Forbes with the latter 
(absolute). I'm not sure how to tell. 

Here are my translations of the whole verse, following the qeri reading (i.e. 
"dor" is followed by a plural participle; this is A-F's move too):

Following qeri:

Construct: "this is the generation of those who seek him, of those who search 
out your face, Jacob."
Absolute: "this is a generation that seek him, that search out your face, 
Jacob."

(2) Is the ketiv (i.e. sing. part.) possible? Is it unusual? "Dor" can be 
followed by both a singluar or a plural noun (e.g. Deut 2:14). The switch in 
the verse from singluar to plural in the second colon may be an example of 
grammatical parallelism ... 

Here are my translations:

Construct: "this is the generation of one who seeks him, of those who search 
out your face, Jacob."
Absolute: "this a generation that seeks him, that search out your face, 
Jacob" (Note the lack of an "s" on the second verb. This would work in 
English, e.g. one can say "Microsoft want" or "Microsoft wants."

Philip Sumpter

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I remember something similar, Dave. When I was doing Koine back in the good 
ol' days, we had Greek Orthodox seminarians come to the class. Some of them 
did brilliantly well, because they were able to transfer their pre-existent 
knowledge of modern Greek into Koine. Others, however, did hopelessly because 
their modern Greek got in the way.

I suspect there is a similar phenomenon with speakers of modern Hebrew with 
regards to biblical Hebrew. It could go either way.


Regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au