Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Joseph Justiss <jljustiss AT msn.com>]

ESV, NASB, NKJV, HCSB all translate Proverbs 5:16 as "Should your springs be 
scattered...? or something like that. This is done even though clause-initial 
Yiqtols are typically volitional.  Vaticanus and Sinaiticus put the negative 
particle me before this verb which is what one would expect in context.

 

Joseph Justiss 
 


Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 20:10:04 +0100
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Prov 5:16 (Joseph Justiss)
From: pporta7 AT gmail.com
To: jljustiss AT msn.com
CC: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org


Joseph,
could you give us a verse where a Yiqtol in its head is taken interrogatively 
in an English version?
 
Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Joseph Justiss <jljustiss AT msn.com> wrote:


How do we know the Yiqtol at the beginning of the verse should be taken 
interrogatively, as many English translations do? Are there other possible 
ways to understand this verb, and this whole verse for that matter?



Joseph Justiss

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Pere Porta
"Ei nekrói ouk eguéirontai, fágomen kai píomen áurion gar apothnéskomen" 
(1Cor 15:32)
                                          
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