From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 03 1998 - 21:45:32 EST
On Mon 2 Mar 98 (22:51:21), wmhboyd@aol.com wrote:
>ÊWhy is "Jerusalem" (IEROSOLUMWN) plural in John 1:19?
Because YeRuWShaLaYiM in Hebrew is Dual in form, though singular in number.
Strict grammarians would woodenly transliterate it into hIEROSOLUMA, then
treat it as plural since Greek has no Dual between singular and plural.
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