Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>]

pere,

 כָּהֵם, יוּקָשִׁים בְּנֵי הָאָדָם, לְעֵת רָעָה, כְּשֶׁתִּפּוֹל עֲלֵיהֶם 
פִּתְאֹם. 

"equal to them (will be trappad) the humans, at a troubled time, AS IT
(the troubled time) falls upon them suddenly."

the problem is, first, the initial L-, second, the subsequent K$-.

the initial L- is BH and may be translated, here, as "at the time of". the 
subsequent K$- [probably short for the earlier K)$R] is not typical 
BH, and appears mainly in Ecc. it is one of the arguments for this book 
being very late. it may be translated as "when, as, while".

as kirk explained, $- or K$- necessarily defines a noun clause, and 
one expects the noun to which the clause refers to be the last noun 
before the K$-, i.e. "bad times".

nir cohen

>>Ecc 9:12.
Is the noun 'et (ra'a)' the grammar subject of verb TIPOL?
Pere Porta