Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Judges 16:30 - Verb with no use, MY PROBLEM!
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:11:06 +0500
On 04/10/2006 04:52, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
... In other
words, if the word is not "become" but "were", you have identified a LBH
usage in the book of Judges. ...
But surely the word here is not "were" but "became". In the previous
sentence we read that the temple fell on top of the people. What is the
next thing that happened? They died, they BECAME dead. They were not
dead before this! So this is an event, not a state, and so perhaps
evidence of earlier usage and an earlier date.