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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 4:3
  • Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:26:07 -0500

You are right! I also think that ADEY is plural. Why? because it appears to me that this tsere is a double xirik for a doubly truncated HIY) ( היא ), thus:
עדי = עד-היא-היא
which, I think, is an old plural form, before the addition of M to make HEM ( הם ).
In Eccl. 4:2-3 ADENAH is obviously AD-HENAH ( עד-הנה ). In verse 3 it is ADEN = AD-HEN.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Pere Porta wrote

In Nm 24:20 we have (DY, a variant of (D: in some way we could say that this is the plural construct of the basic (D (until, up to).
But in Ecc 4:3 we find (DN, hitherto, still, which is usually taken for a variant of (D as well.

Regarding the final N of this word, what would this N be?

It does not seem to be in any relation with the -N suffix of the plural feminine (look for instance at 1Sa 20:3: MUTFN)


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Pere Porta






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