From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: "Jason Hare" <jaihare AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Exodus 18:26 - Y$PW+W
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 14:42:34 -0500
I was reading it wrong
Rashi:
"they themselves would judge": Heb. יִשְׁפּוּטוּ, same as יִשְׁפֹּטוּ, and
similarly [we find the verb תעבורי,], “neither shall you go away (לֹא
תַעִבוּרִי)” (Ruth 2:8), like לֹא תַעֲבוֹרִי. The Targum [Onkelos] renders:
דַּייְנִין אִינוּן, they judge. The earlier passages(verse 22) were in the
imperative form. Therefore, they are rendered: וִִידוּנוּן, יַיְתוּן,
יְדוּנוּן, but these passages [here in verse 26] are expressions of doing
[and are not imperative].
Shoshanna,
I think you're thinking of the pual imperfect, which (if שפט appeared
in piel) would be ישופטו Y$WP+W. This isn't what's in the text. It's
simply a strange form of the qal imperfect, which I don't think would
be read as a normal qal imperfect consonantally (since even then
having a long vowel marked by a mater lectionis would be odd in that
position).
Regards,
Jason Hare
2009/2/9 Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>:
Doesn't your suggesting mean "they will judge", and the text mean "They
will
be judged by..."?