Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:13:27PM +0300, Andronic Khandjani wrote:
> We usually renders Genesis 3:22 by "" Behold, the man is become as one of
> us, to know good and evil", a targum translates mimenou by "by himself" and

1) ממנו can (at least as pointed within the Tiberian tradition) mean
both: מן + suffix 3.sg.m or 1.pl. 

2) which targum :-) ?

3) if Onkelos, I want to point to the fact that the word מינה can be undestood
in several ways according to which word you connect it to.
E.g. if one connects it to the following "למידע" it would mean something
like "upon him is to know ...".
If one would follow the tradition of the targum accentuation (as shown
e.g. in the second rabbinic bible[*]) then the the words בעלמא מינה are
connected with maqqef, i.e. they are in a closer connection thatn יחידי and 
עלמא!

[*] available online: 
http://aleph500.huji.ac.il/nnl/dig/books/bk001268184.html

> the mim and the lam may suggest some motion. Mim may suggest subtraction and
> lam adhesion.  Eva is not even mentioned but only Adam.
> 
> Is it possible that k'ehad refer to the unity of Genesis 2.24, if so Adam
> refers here to the humanity and we may render the verse like this:
> "The human became as one by their own initiative through the knowledge of
> good and evil"?
> .
> Firouz Khandjani
> 
> 
> Pleven, Bulgaria
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