From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: 2 Kings 25:15
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:07:39 -0500
Dear Liz,
You ask:
>How do you translate this verse? Does it imply
>that all the temple vessels were brought out as bouillon,
>or ingots or something, not as vessels???
>There's no particle k there.
HH: Please see GKC 123e, which speaks of "repetition to express an
exceptional or at least superfine quality; e.g. 2 K 25:15 'which were of
gold, gold, of silver, silver,' i.e. made of pure gold and pure silver."