Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

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ECCLESIASTES
Israel's kings, and that Herod built reservoirs, uses this allusion as an
argument for the Herodian date of the book. DT] is omitted by Ha.
on account of the metrical exigency. "i:na is, it is true, usually not fol-
lowed by D^D in BH., but Nah. 2 9
presents a parallel in favor of the present
reading. DHL] is used after nona for pa. There is considerable
inaccuracy in BH. as to the agreement in gender in such cases. Cf.
Ges. K-
npix. Cf. Ges.K -
i45u. See also below on 2 10 . &v;\
is ace. after the intrans.
nyy. 7. njp], " to gain possession of ," was used with
IDDa for "buying" (e.g., Am. 8 6 Is. 43 24
), and then came to mean "buy"
when used without ion (cf. Gn. 39! 47 23 Ex. 2i l 2 S. i2 3
, etc.). no ->ja]
are slaves born of slaves already in the master's possession (cf. Gn.
i5 2
). The usual expression for this is no n>S^ 12 - 13 -
See Gn. 14" i7
23 - 27 and Je. 2 14 . n\-i no ^a] is a phrase with a pi. sub. and a sing. pred.
Ty. thought the expression a collective, but Ges. K (i45u)
and K6.
(349g) explain it better as a case where the sing, dependent gen. has
attracted the verb to its number. One MS. has corrected to -vn (cf.
Dr.). n^pp] was read as a const, njpp by