Ecclesiastes - GA Barton - 1908.pdf
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QOHELETH'S EXPERIMENTS [Cn. 1^2 95<br />
which we have here, occurs several times, once in the J. document.<br />
Cf. Ju. i8 10 2 K. 6" Ma. i 8<br />
3<br />
Job i6 38" and Qoh. n. For the more<br />
usual form see Gn. 24" 27", etc. Cf. Ges. K -<br />
SDD ].<br />
i5og and K6. 379)3.<br />
The root, spelled with a z, occurs, as noted above, in this sense<br />
in the form Zakalu in the code of Hammurabi, col. XXIII, 40. oSir]<br />
occurs in BH. only in late compositions, Ne. Es. Ps. iiQ 133 and Qoh.<br />
It is frequent in the Aram, portions of Daniel. (g BAXV read el ti-ov-<br />
ffidferai, which represents taVtpn in Heb. Perhaps as McN. thinks this<br />
was a reading before the time of Aqiba. It is an unnatural reading,<br />
and may have arisen through some mistake. SDD IN]. Ha. regards this as<br />
a gloss, and both he and Zap. reject San ni DJ as a stereotyped insertion.<br />
These supposed glosses are in the interest of their metrical arrangement.<br />
TiDDrwi inSaj:tJ>] is, as Zo. and Del. have noted, a hendiadys for "upon<br />
which I toiled wisely." 20. ^niiDi]. Some scholars maintain that there<br />
is a distinction between 2 3D and njs that the former means "turn to<br />
do," the latter "turn to see." Del. has pointed out, however, that in<br />
Lv. 26 9 njfl means "turn to do," while in Qoh. 7 25 220 signifies "turn to<br />
see." t^], according to Baer, should be pointed #so. Dr. so points it,<br />
and the reading is accepted by Ges. K<br />
646. The form is a Piel inf.<br />
The root occurs outside of this passage but five times in the OT. (i S.<br />
Job<br />
6 26<br />
), and always in the Niphal. The Mishna<br />
27! Is. 57 10 Je. 2 25 18 12<br />
has the Hithpael of the root, thus vouching for its use in the Piel, see<br />
Aboth,<br />
i 7<br />
, and Kelim, 26 8 . Soyn So hy]. A number of MSS. of (& read iv<br />
/j.6x0> fJ-ov = iSnya. Btoipn nnn]. Ha. rejects this as a gloss, which spoils the<br />
symmetry of his metrical arrangement. 21. DIN DIN] is a balanced<br />
rhetorical expression, cf. Ko. 34. fH^?] occurs only in Qoh., here,<br />
and in 4* and 5 10 . Its root -\BO occurs in Es. 8 s<br />
Qoh. io l and n,<br />
also in NH. Aram, and Syr. (BDE. 5o6b and Ja. 677b). The root<br />
means "to go well," "prosper;" and the noun, "success." ipSn] is taken<br />
by No. as the second object of pj, cf.<br />
8 Ps. 2 Ges. ,<br />
K -<br />
(13101)<br />
as an appositive to the preceding suffix, Kb. (3400) regards<br />
takes it<br />
it as a<br />
predicate ace. ipSn and nan njn Ha. excises so that the verse shall<br />
conform to his metrical conception.<br />
22. nirvj, the part, of nin, occurs elsewhere in Ne. 6 6 . The root, Job 37',<br />
has the meaning "fall;" in Gn. 27" Is.i 6 4 Ne. 6 6 and Qoh. nHhe sense<br />
of n->n, "be," which it has here. Ges. Bu -<br />
(i3th ed.) regards nin, "to<br />
fall," and nin, "to be," as different roots, butBDB. is probably right in<br />
connecting them, that "which occurs" or "falls out, " being that which is.<br />
In Aramaic nin and nin occur side by side in the sense of "be" (see<br />
Dalman, Aram. Gram. 73, and Ja., p. 338). nin is found in the Aram,<br />
inscr. of Panammu of Zendjirli, which is from the 8th cent. (cf. G. A.<br />
Cooke, North Sem. Inscr., pp. 172, 176). Its occurrence in Aram, led<br />
Hit., No. and others to regard it as an Aramaism, but its occurrence<br />
in an old poem in Gn. 27" indicates that in Heb. as in Aram, it was at