Re: FONH BOWNTOS

From: Benjamin Raymond (bfraymond@prodigy.net)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 09:52:38 EDT


At 08:39 AM 8/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 7:50 AM -0400 8/3/99, Benjamin Raymond wrote:
>>I am not understanding the construction from Isaiah 40:3 FONH BOWNTOS.
>>
>>Why is it not FONH BOWSA?
>
>Because BOWNTOS is a masculine (indefinite) substantive: it's not "a voice
>shouting" but "a voice of (a person) shouting."

Ah! Of course. That makes perfect sense now.

Maybe I ought to consult an English translation now and then :-)

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