Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

One Levite, then another?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 7, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Rolf Furuli wrote:

> Let us look at Nehemiah 13:22.  The most natural way to view the  
> relative clause, is that it is modal. If this is the case, an  
> aspectual discussion is not possible. If the clause is in the  
> indicative, we note that the subject is plural. So, the meaning  
> could be that one Levite would come to the gate (the end of the  
> action), then another Levite, and so on.