Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

I haven't been following this too closely so I don't know if it's come up, 
but how do our learned haverim understand Ps. 116:13 and again 18, "negda-na 
lekol-'ammo" (and Isaac, no need to repeat that you don't agree with the e 
for sheva and the doubling of the mem)? "Negda" is almost universally 
translated as "before" or "in the presence of", as if it were "neged 
kol-'ammo". However the suffix -na and the proposition le- both indicate the 
"negda" is a verb. Wouldn't "nagida-na lekol-'ammo" - "let us tell it to all 
his people" make more sense?


Thanks,

Yigal Levin

Tzur-Yigal, Israel