Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Miller" <smille10 AT sbcglobal.net>]

Barry,
I think the problem with your proposal is that there is no "and" connecting 
"Your name" and "Your word". How can they both be direct objects without 
"and" connecting them?

Also, I think it would be bad writing for KoL to act as a noun when it is 
followed by a noun. The reader would naturally read KoL as modifying the noun 
which follows it. Ps 103:19 & 145:9 are given by TWOT where KoL acts as a 
noun, and in both of these it is clear that KoL cannot modify the following 
verb or noun with conjunction prefix.

I would translate it: For You have magnified Your word based upon Your entire 
name.

Sincerely,
-Steve Miller
Detroit
www.voiceInWilderness.info
In the Lord do I trust.
How say ye to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your mountain,
for wicked bend the bow."? (Ps11:1-2a)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 11:23 PM
> To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [b-hebrew] Psalm 138:2
> 
> In Psalm 138:2:
> 
> כִּי־הִגְדַּלְתָּ עַל־כָּל־שִׁמְךָ אִמְרָתֶךָ
> 
> Is it possible to see KoL as a substantive object of (aL, "above
> everything," and then SheMKa and )iMRaThKa (hopefully that
> transliteration is ballpark) as direct objects of the verb, perhaps as
> a hendiadys?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Classics and Bible Instructor, TAA
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