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Subject: [b-hebrew] WTHYNW in Deut 1:41
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:10:22 +0300
The word WTHYNW is unusual.
>From grammatical considerations the N is part of the root.
Two lines later, a similar expression has the more understandable WTZDW.
The Onkelos Aramaic translation sidesteps the issue
(and interestingly translates the second expression in a completely different
way).
Rashi explains that this is a verb form of HNNW = "here we are"
and most of the other classical commentaries go along.
Another says that there is another option - HYN, but does not elaborate.
I was wondering if anyone has alternative ideas about this.
Yaakov (J) Stein
[b-hebrew] WTHYNW in Deut 1:41,
Yaakov Stein, 08/11/2008