Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Hi Richard,

I don't think that the grammar can prove one way or another, although the
usual parallelism of biblical poetry would have the moon and the sun play
equal roles. 

I would actually assume that the subject of the first part, "He" (=God) is
also the subject of the second:
God made the moon... God knows the sun...


Yigal Levin

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Subject: [b-hebrew] Psalm 104:19

Psalm 104:19 "He made the moon for appointed times; The sun knows its (his) 
going down."

The sun knows its (the sun's own) going down?

or

The sun knows the moon's going down (moonset)?

How does the grammar work here? Is it cut and dried as to meaning one way or

the other?

Thank you.

Richard Conaway 

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