Neuter plurals - singular imperatives

Albert Pietersma albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Wed Nov 27 10:38:51 EST 2002




Penner wrote:

> I thought I'd check if the difference in number in these two examples
> was attributable to the Hebrew Vorlage, and found that the Hebrew MT has
> a plural verb where the LXX has a singular, and vice-versa! (In 1:22 the
> Hebrew subject is singular, so there is agreement in number in both
> cases.)

You are, however, quite right in checking  since,  in Septuagintal literature,  this
syntactic phenomenon as such often does suffer interference from the the source text.
In Psalms, for instance, it is quite noticeable.
Al

>
>
> > > Gen 1:20    EXAGAGETW TA UDATA
> > > Gen 1:22    TA PETEINA PLHQUNESQWSAN
> > >
> > > Apparently the grammatical rule has not been strictly
> > applied by the
> > > translator of Genesis. If the situation is different in other books
> > > (and if it is a construction ad sensum: animated vss not animated)
> > > goes well beyond what I wanted to know in the first place.
>
> Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew
> Poetry)
> Ph.D. Student, McMaster University
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