You are right! I also think that ADEY is plural. Why? because it
appears to me that this tsere is a double xirik for a doubly
truncated HIY) ( היא ), thus:
עדי = עד-היא-היא
which, I think, is an old plural form, before the addition of M to
make HEM ( הם ).
In Eccl. 4:2-3 ADENAH is obviously AD-HENAH ( עד-הנה ). In verse
3 it is ADEN = AD-HEN.
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Dec 10, 2010, at 1:47 AM, Pere Porta wrote
In Nm 24:20 we have (DY, a variant of (D: in some way we could say
that this is the plural construct of the basic (D (until, up to).
But in Ecc 4:3 we find (DN, hitherto, still, which is usually taken
for a variant of (D as well.
Regarding the final N of this word, what would this N be?
It does not seem to be in any relation with the -N suffix of the
plural feminine (look for instance at 1Sa 20:3: MUTFN)
--
Pere Porta
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