118:50 αὕτη με παρεκάλεσεν ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει μου ὅτι τὸ λόγιόν σου ἔζησέν με
118:56 αὕτη ἐγενήθη μοι ὅτι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐξεζήτησα
What's the antecent of the demonstrative pronoun in these two verses? Or is it feminine because of some underlying word in the Hebrew?
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Psalm 118:50,56
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Psalm 118:50,56
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Re: Psalm 118:50,56
Yes, it's the feminine near demonstrative pronoun זֹאת in Hebrew.Mitch Tulloch wrote: ↑March 23rd, 2024, 2:28 pm118:50 αὕτη με παρεκάλεσεν ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει μου ὅτι τὸ λόγιόν σου ἔζησέν με
118:56 αὕτη ἐγενήθη μοι ὅτι τὰ δικαιώματά σου ἐξεζήτησα
What's the antecent of the demonstrative pronoun in these two verses? Or is it feminine because of some underlying word in the Hebrew?
The "antecedent" comes later; it's the subordinating conjunction ὅτι / כי. The Hebrew doesn't have the Greek's gender mismatch between feminine αὕτη and neuter ὅτι.LEB wrote:50 This is my comfort in my misery:
that your word preserves my life.
56 This has been mine,
that I have kept your precepts.
Ken M. Penner
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, St. Francis Xavier University
Editor, Digital Biblical Studies
General Editor, Lexham English Septuagint
Co-Editor, Online Critical Pseudepigrapha pseudepigrapha.org
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