From: "Paul R. Zellmer" <zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Gen 2:4
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:53:57 +0800
Pere Casanellas wrote:
>
> Paul Zellmer wrote about "be-yom" in Gen 2:4:
>
> <<I think you would agree that we have the
> absolute form of the noun here with the preposition.>>
>
> It is a construct form: see the following infinitive.
Pere,
My error. And I even called attention to the infinitive and how it
modified the noun!
It still doesn't change the idiomatic meaning of "when," don't you
agree.
Paul
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