Actually all the "theorizing" has been helpful. After my initial[cut]
question, which was due to me forgetting about the feminine third person
form, I then proceeded to ask the purpose for the seemingly redundancy.
I mean we know that "the woman" is speaking - so I was wondering why the
need to add "she". Why not just have H)#H )MR "The woman said ....", but
instead the text has "And she said, the woman, .....".
To me it looked a little redundant. So the responses I have gotten have
been helpful.
Now I wish to expand the question one step further:
If you were translating the word WAT.O)MER by itself, how would one go
about translating it?
I currently assume there isn't a way to do so.
The reason I ask is in a verse like Gen 3:17 you have L")MOR LO) TO) KAL
Now it is usually translated as "saying, you shall not eat", but
couldn't also be translated "saying, she shall not eat".
B"H
John Steven
"If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you
behave."
-Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.
[cut]John,
You are on the right track. All you need is just organize and
systematize your thoughts. I said it before and I will say it again.
1. The Indo-European languages have thoroughly destroyed the
structure of their mother tongue. They have bungled their root system
and forgot all about their original internal system of personal
pronouns.
2. For some reason Hebrew is left in nearly pristine form. It is
nearly as ADAM and EVE invented it in their boundless cleverness
still fresh from the tree of knowledge.
3. Every word in the Hebrew language is composed of a root and
personal pronouns, that's all. Every Hebrew vowel excepting 'A' is a
personal pronoun. In nouns the personal pronouns refer to the object,
while in verbs (acts) the personal pronouns refer to the actors.
3. The (compound) separate personal pronouns ANI, ANOKYI, ATAH, AT,
HU, HI, ANU, ATEM. HEM, HEN, can not be inserted between the radical
letters lest they confuse the root.
4. The word TIRCAX is actually two words that have come close
together. They are TI-RCAX, where TI is a variant of AT or ATAH
standing for the actor-addressee. Since TI is gender indifferent
Hebrew adds (H)YI for the female at the and, TI-RCX-YI. So LO TI- RCAX
reads exactly as you say it does: "no you kill". For the girls it is:
"no you kill she". For the many Hebrew adds (H)U, TI-RCX-U, and so
on. When many speak for themselves they say NI-RCAX, where NI is a
variant of ANI and ANU. The single speaker contacted ANI to the mere
E, E-RCAX, "I kill".
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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