Dear Isaac,
Just a brief remark. HA-RA(EB of Isaiah 29:8 is "he who is famished".
Notice that this translation does not contain one single "the".
Thanks. This example is not in Ehrensvärd's article, but the author
would probably treat it as a generic use of the definite article.
David's point would be that the person here is a generalized person, a
hypothetical person, while the person in Isa 7:14 seems to be a specific
person, as is the person in Gen 14:13. So in my thinking, these last
cases appear to be a special use of the generic article where the
quality of the person is emphasized and the person is unidentified, even
though it is in fact a specific individual or thing.
I would have to study the rest of Ehrensärd's article more carefully,
but he still came across examples he could not really account for. He
also had to discount some as misprints or "non-functional" uses of the
article or put them in categories different than English usage or in
usages unlike English.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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