Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Charles:

Both prepositions count—“for from the day”.


ל prefix, meaning to, towards, for, for the purpose of, concerning (as in
talking about), often used as an indicator of ownership, When used in the
context of noun ל noun, it means “each and every” of that noun, as in “Day
by day” or “command upon command”.

Both prepositions have wider meanings than any equivalent words in English,
so often will be translated by different words depending on their contexts.
In this context, the first preposition is best translated as “for” and the
second “from”, together meaning “for from” as above.

Karl W. Randolph.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Charles Grebe <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>wrote:

> חברים
>
> I have another little thing that I ran into in my 2 Samuel 7 reading. In
> verse 6 there is the word yom with two prepositions, min and li. I did a
> search and found that this form למיום appears 3 times (Judges 19:30, 2
> Samuel 7:6 and Isaiah 7:17). Does anyone know if there is any difference in
> meaning between this form למיום and the more common מיום?
>
> thanks,
>
> Charles Grebe
> Briercrest College and Seminary
> Caronport, SK
>
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