02-14-2010, 10:21 PM
Jerry Wrote:Onkelos used (YoTh) as the Aramaic object marker. It is my suspicion that the "Syriac" object marker is not (YoTh), but instead (YaD). Not to be confused with (`iYD) "hand".
Not surprisingly, the Peshitta NT grammatical analysis lists all occurrances of (YaD) as "construct" in form, logically, since the "object marker" is indeed such. Its first occurrance is in Matthew 4:13:
And he left her to Nazareth, and dwelled in Capernaum, upon that-of the sea.
(`eiTh) Hebrew
(YoTh) Aramaic
(YaD) Syriac
(that of) English ?
Shlama Akhi Jerry,
The typical Object Marker in Syriac (if used) is l- and in very rare occurences yath (in order to mimic the Hebrew 'eth).
The Yad you are referring to in Matthew 4:13 is indeed the construct form of hand. ???????? ?????????? yadh yammaa meaning "the hand of the sea" which is the sea side, the bank of the sea, the edge of the sea with which the sea grab things.
The Object Marker in Syriac is not in the construct form. The construct form is a special form of a noun that can be used directly infront of another noun to make a genetive. (Also, adjectives often have the construct form before prepositions and in rare cases before adverbs). I would not say the Object Marker is a noun, but a Particle, and does thus not have any state.
//Lars