Sunday, February 26, 2023

Translating the Tanakh

∞ source   ALT-236
From https://uhg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/state_absolute.html The most fundamental difference between the two forms is that the construct form can take an attached suffix, but the absolute form cannot.  ... Because infinitives do not change form for either gender or number, there is usually only one infinitive construct form and one infinitive absolute form of a verb in Biblical Hebrew.   

https://hebrew.billmounce.com/BasicsBiblicalHebrew-20.pdf  The Hebrew Infinitive Construct is a verbal noun. It is not inflected for person, gender or number. ... The vowel pattern is consistent for all strong verbs and even for most weak verbs.
see p.2: it has a shva (2 vertical dots) and a holam-oh (dot on the upper-left corner of the consonant on the right)

In English https://pediaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Difference-Between-Gerund-and-Verbal-Noun-infographic-599x1024.jpg (source) All gerunds end in +ing ; verbal nouns are nouns, so they can pluralize and take adjectives: Two readings

In Hebrew verbal nouns don't conjugate because they are nouns, not verbs.

Absolute
22:13 slaying cattle and slaughtering sheep הָרֹ֤ג ׀ בָּקָר֙ וְשָׁחֹ֣ט צֹ֔אן
ha.rog
ba.kar
v-.sha.khot
ts.on
25:27 eating honey abundantly is not good אָ֘כֹ֤ל דְּבַ֣שׁ הַרְבּ֣וֹת לֹא־ט֑וֹב
a.khol
d.vash
har.bot
lo-tov
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