11-15-2010, 08:52 AM
Aaron S Wrote:It's masculine (or general) singular emphatic with possessive third masculine singular. It could also be done as chabiva dabba... but chabiveh dabba conforms to a frequently used syntax (I can't speak on which is preferable since I don't know Aramaic, but my guess would be chabiveh dabba); it appears in Matthew 1:1 which reads yilidutheh d'Yeshu (genealogy of Yeshua). You could think of d'Yeshu modifying the possessive suffix.
So:
yilidutheh - His genealogy
Whose?
d'Yeshu - of Yeshua
I would say this neatly parallels with the apostrophe-s possessive syntax of English in semantics; that is to say all, or most, instances of the Aramaic syntax above can be translated using apostrophe-s. For example: Yeshua's genealogy, The father's beloved. If there are any other nuances you see, I can try and give some more details.
(p.s. the feminine form would be chabivteh dabba or chabivta dabba; I'm not confident of this, but for masculine plural it might be chabivauhi dabba which is the standard plural suffix for the same possession)
Wow. Thank you so much for the explanation. I was actually tryin to look up for the possessive syntax of Aramaic in order to answer this question. Thank you so much. <!-- s:lol: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/laugh.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laugh" /><!-- s:lol: -->