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> > Samuel, Who is he who said, Saul will be king over us?? Allow
> us that we may cause him to die.. In this case, that the second> > carry the idea of a question. Is that what you mean?
> half of the question is understood as a question in itself, is
> not a grammatical feature, but a stylistic use of a statement to
You have mistranslated the verse. You have put what was grammatically a statement in Hebrew into what is grammatically a question in English.
Getting back to B-Hebrew, notice how my question is framed grammatically as a statement, yet the context and inflection at the end change it to be understood as a question. And like the statement in 1 Samuel 11:12, it expects a negative response.
While the Hebrew consonental text cannot show inflection, I see how the context can lead to the understanding that this is a statement that is to be understood as a question. (Incidently, it does not come near to quoting the question posed in 1 Samuel 10:27, but that grammatical question is part of the context leading to the understanding of the statement as a question.)
Whereas in English, the grammatical form indicating a question is the word order, that is not true in B-Hebrew. However, Bryan has shown that certain word constructs counterindicate questions, even the understanding of a statement as a question, among those the particular word structure found in Proverbs 5:16. There is no grammatical indication that it is a question, and I see no need to read it as a question.
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