Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf

QOHELETH'S EXPERIMENTS [Cn. 1^2 95
which we have here, occurs several times, once in the J. document.
Cf. Ju. i8 10 2 K. 6" Ma. i 8
3
Job i6 38" and Qoh. n. For the more
usual form see Gn. 24" 27", etc. Cf. Ges. K -
SDD ].
i5og and K6. 379)3.
The root, spelled with a z, occurs, as noted above, in this sense
in the form Zakalu in the code of Hammurabi, col. XXIII, 40. oSir]
occurs in BH. only in late compositions, Ne. Es. Ps. iiQ 133 and Qoh.
It is frequent in the Aram, portions of Daniel. (g BAXV read el ti-ov-
ffidferai, which represents taVtpn in Heb. Perhaps as McN. thinks this
was a reading before the time of Aqiba. It is an unnatural reading,
and may have arisen through some mistake. SDD IN]. Ha. regards this as
a gloss, and both he and Zap. reject San ni DJ as a stereotyped insertion.
These supposed glosses are in the interest of their metrical arrangement.
TiDDrwi inSaj:tJ>] is, as Zo. and Del. have noted, a hendiadys for "upon
which I toiled wisely." 20. ^niiDi]. Some scholars maintain that there
is a distinction between 2 3D and njs that the former means "turn to
do," the latter "turn to see." Del. has pointed out, however, that in
Lv. 26 9 njfl means "turn to do," while in Qoh. 7 25 220 signifies "turn to
see." t^], according to Baer, should be pointed #so. Dr. so points it,
and the reading is accepted by Ges. K
646. The form is a Piel inf.
The root occurs outside of this passage but five times in the OT. (i S.
Job
6 26
), and always in the Niphal. The Mishna
27! Is. 57 10 Je. 2 25 18 12
has the Hithpael of the root, thus vouching for its use in the Piel, see
Aboth,
i 7
, and Kelim, 26 8 . Soyn So hy]. A number of MSS. of (& read iv
/j.6x0> fJ-ov = iSnya. Btoipn nnn]. Ha. rejects this as a gloss, which spoils the
symmetry of his metrical arrangement. 21. DIN DIN] is a balanced
rhetorical expression, cf. Ko. 34. fH^?] occurs only in Qoh., here,
and in 4* and 5 10 . Its root -\BO occurs in Es. 8 s
Qoh. io l and n,
also in NH. Aram, and Syr. (BDE. 5o6b and Ja. 677b). The root
means "to go well," "prosper;" and the noun, "success." ipSn] is taken
by No. as the second object of pj, cf.
8 Ps. 2 Ges. ,
K -
(13101)
as an appositive to the preceding suffix, Kb. (3400) regards
takes it
it as a
predicate ace. ipSn and nan njn Ha. excises so that the verse shall
conform to his metrical conception.
22. nirvj, the part, of nin, occurs elsewhere in Ne. 6 6 . The root, Job 37',
has the meaning "fall;" in Gn. 27" Is.i 6 4 Ne. 6 6 and Qoh. nHhe sense
of n->n, "be," which it has here. Ges. Bu -
(i3th ed.) regards nin, "to
fall," and nin, "to be," as different roots, butBDB. is probably right in
connecting them, that "which occurs" or "falls out, " being that which is.
In Aramaic nin and nin occur side by side in the sense of "be" (see
Dalman, Aram. Gram. 73, and Ja., p. 338). nin is found in the Aram,
inscr. of Panammu of Zendjirli, which is from the 8th cent. (cf. G. A.
Cooke, North Sem. Inscr., pp. 172, 176). Its occurrence in Aram, led
Hit., No. and others to regard it as an Aramaism, but its occurrence
in an old poem in Gn. 27" indicates that in Heb. as in Aram, it was at