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xiphiasSo, I was poking around online looking for a list of what Hebrew letters were orignially what pictograms. And I come across an evangelical Christian website with a web discussion.
And they're trying to figure out what "eit" in Hebrew means -- aleph tav.
They end up deciding it is a name of God.
IT'S A FREAKIN' GRAMMATICAL MARKER! IT JUST TELLS YOU WHICH WORD IS THE DIRECT OBJECT!
See, Biblical Hebrew doesn't really have word order, not real strongly. So, if you have two nouns and a verb, there's not necessarily any way to tell which noun verbed the other.
But if the direct object of the sentence is definite -- that is, it is THE whatever it is, or it's a proper noun -- then you can stick aleph tav in front of it, and that means it's the direct object.
I've registered for the site so that I can log in and explain what it is and how it works. I just can't stand to see people flailing about this helplessly. It hurts.
And they're trying to figure out what "eit" in Hebrew means -- aleph tav.
They end up deciding it is a name of God.
IT'S A FREAKIN' GRAMMATICAL MARKER! IT JUST TELLS YOU WHICH WORD IS THE DIRECT OBJECT!
See, Biblical Hebrew doesn't really have word order, not real strongly. So, if you have two nouns and a verb, there's not necessarily any way to tell which noun verbed the other.
But if the direct object of the sentence is definite -- that is, it is THE whatever it is, or it's a proper noun -- then you can stick aleph tav in front of it, and that means it's the direct object.
I've registered for the site so that I can log in and explain what it is and how it works. I just can't stand to see people flailing about this helplessly. It hurts.