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[Jason Hare <jaihare AT gmail.com>]

How could she be too told to be a woman. She'll be a woman until she dies!

When it says להיות לאיש it means "to belong to a man." In other words, "to get married."

It would not make sense, anyway, for her to say אני זקן, even in modern Hebrew - since that is masculine. I'd render it in modern Hebrew as:

אני זקנה מידי ([ב]כדי\בשביל) להינשא לגבר

She was saying she's too told to get married again.

Jason Hare

Rehovot, Israel

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Chris Watts <dekruidnootjes AT eircom.net> wrote:

The part of verse 12:  זקנתי  מהיות  לאיש  concentrating
on the mem prefix.  Looking down my lists of how מן  is used I have
presumed to fit it into the "Causal" category, (from arnold and choi
ref heb syntax book).  Literally translated in idiomatic way:  "I am
too old from being for a husband."  It's interesting to see how
modern hebrew would say this:  אני זקן מכדי שאהיה לי
הבעל  they have also that nuance of 'from' followed by the verb
'being'.  It is interesting to note that she does not say :
זקנתי להיות אישה



Chris Watts
Ireland



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