The form of the Hebrew in both instances is what grammarians call the infinitive absolute: the infinitive immediately followed by a conjugated form of the same verb. The general effect of this representation is to add emphasis to the verb, but because in the case of the verb "to die" it is the pattern regularly used in the Bible for the issuing of death sentences, "doomed to die" is an appropriate equivalent.
From kwrandolph AT gmail.com Wed Nov 29 10:41:32 2006Return-Path: <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
On 11/25/06, K Randolph wrote:Another article behind a firewall to keep the non-academician out.
> All I say is that if the BGDKPT letters originally had only one sound,
> then many words would be unpronounceable unless each consonant is
> followed by a vowel. Examples include Rebecca (modern Hebrew Rivkah)
> and Capernaum (Kfar Nachum).
If you look up the following article:
F. C. B. CAPERNAUM, CAPHARNAUM J Theol Studies 1933 os-XXXIV: 385-390
http://jts.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/os-XXXIV/136/385
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