Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:06:54 -0500
From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Genesis 12:3
To: Chris Gummer <chrisgumms AT hotmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org, kgraham0938 AT comcast.net
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It is probably only a slip of pen, but in Genesis 12:3 ("And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee") there are many blessers but only one curser. Blessers has two successive suffixes (attached personal pronouns), as in English, but curser=curs +er has only one, as in English.
I never noticed that. The NLT and NIV missed it, too (NLT: "and curse
those who curse you" NIV: "whoever curses you I will curse"). Is there a
consensus as to significance of "him that curseth thee"? Or is it a
synecdoche for "all those who curse you"?
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