On 2 Mar 2011 at 16:20, Sébastien Louis wrote:
> > Hello, > > could someone explain how the terme is > constructed and on what it is based? The sentence is (Ex 1, 1): > > > > > > > > > > > I guess it comes from the article "ha" and the verb "ba" (to come) > and means "coming" or "who came". If so, what kind of construction > is this? And why is there noun plural (-im) on a verb? > > Sorry for these questions that might sound stupid to most of you, > but I'm a beginner... > > Thanks a lot to all, > > Sébastien Louis > Belgium Don't worry, nobody is born knowing this stuff, we all had to learn it from the beginning at some point. The word is a participle. You are correct that it comes from BW). The form is a masculine plural participle, a form that in this case "nouns" the verb. That's why it can take the definite article H at the front, and the YM ending is the masculine plural. Your rendering is correct: "these are the names of the sons of Israel, the ones who came to Egypt..." In English we make it into a noun with a subordinate clause, "the ones who," whereas biblical Hebrew just uses a participle with the appropriate noun affixes. Hope this helps, Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
