To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: RE: timing in 2 Chron 21.19
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:52:36 -0400
>===== Original Message From Andrew & Debby Kulikovsky
>The infinite construct is the subject of the main clause - literally it says:
>
>It happened for days after days at some time (In the course of time?), the
>coming out (at) the end of (after?) 2 days (years?), his bowels came out...
>
>I don't understand what the infinite construct means of how it functions in
>this verse.
I'm guessing that ke'et goes with the infinitive construct--at the time of
the
coming out of the end of two (whatever we're going to do with yamim). I think
the coming out refers here to the end--when the end of a time period has come
out (emerged, proceeded, etc.), that time period is finished. So it's just a
roundabout way of saying, "After x time period." But I'm no expert on LBH
temporal constructions.