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My Hebrew education didn't extend to the future tense, but according to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA#Conjugation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/
by schoen 2mo ago
My Hebrew education didn't extend to the future tense, but according to
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA#Conjugation https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA#Conjugation
תָּמוּת is either second person masculine future, or third person feminine future. But according to
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A9 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A9
נֶפֶשׁ is feminine. So it seems that only the third person form could agree with the subject noun, right?
- Joker_vD 2mo agoApparently, that's how Biblical Hebrew expressed the jussive. German uses 3rd person subjunctive ("Meine Seele sterbe mit den Philistern"), Polish (and other Slavic languages, I imagine) also uses 3rd person future but with explicit "let" thrown in: "Niech umrze dusza moja z Filistynami". But those are the older translations — those quotes are from Luther Bible (1534) and Gdansk Bible (1632); you can find newer translations that use the wording of "let me perish with the Philistines" variety as well.