Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Yes, this is the Qal Participle (plural masculine) preceded by the article.
In Gn 18:11 we find the same form without article.

So in Ex 1:1 we get; "the (males) who come", "the (males) coming"

Regards from

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)

2011/3/2 <dwashbur AT nyx.net>

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> On 2 Mar 2011 at 16:20, Sébastien Louis wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > could someone explain how the terme  is
> > constructed and on what it is based? The sentence is (Ex 1, 1):
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> > I guess it comes from the article "ha" and the verb "ba" (to come)
> > and means "coming" or "who came". If so, what kind of construction
> > is this? And why is there noun plural (-im) on a verb?
> >
> > Sorry for these questions that might sound stupid to most of you,
> > but I'm a beginner...
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> > Thanks a lot to all,
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> > Sébastien Louis
> > Belgium
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> Don't worry, nobody is born knowing this stuff, we all had to learn it from
> the beginning at
> some point.
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> The word is a participle.  You are correct that it comes from BW).  The
> form is a masculine
> plural participle, a form that in this case "nouns" the verb.  That's why
> it can take the definite
> article H at the front, and the YM ending is the masculine plural.  Your
> rendering is correct:
> "these are the names of the sons of Israel, the ones who came to Egypt..."
>  In English we
> make it into a noun with a subordinate clause, "the ones who," whereas
> biblical Hebrew just
> uses a participle with the appropriate noun affixes.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Dave Washburn
>
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
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Pere Porta