Niccacci is right on this (thanks James!). The pronoun הוא is acting as predicate of the pronoun אתה: "you are he/it". The noun האלהים is then functioning appositionally: "you are he, the God". This sounds very clunky in English, but the sense can be conveyed with something like "You are it, O God!" or "You are it: you are God!" or "YOU are God!" or even "God, you're the one!"
GEORGE ATHAS Dean of Research, Moore Theological College (moore.edu.au) Sydney, Australia From: James Spinti <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Friday, 16 November 2012 1:00 AM To: Michael Abernathy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: B-Hebrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] הוּא after pronouns Mike, This is discussed in "The Verbless Clause in Biblical Hebrew," pages 227-230, in the article by Alviero Niccacci, Types and Functions of the Nominal Sentence. He specifically mentions and translates 2 Sam 7:28 in footnote 50: 50. Literally, ‘It is you that are he, namely the (only) God’. HTH, James ________________________________ James Spinti E-mail marketing, Book Sales Division Eisenbrauns, Good books for more than 35 years Specializing in Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical Studies jspinti at eisenbrauns dot com Web: http://www.eisenbrauns.com Phone: 260-445-3118 Fax: 574-269-6788
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