04-06-2017, 06:35 PM
In this case, couldn't it be an idiom for something which has to do with becoming a carpenter or mason — being apprentice, graduating from an education or dropping out. Bar corresponds to Hebrew ben, for which BDB says:
son of a messenger = messenger
men of the troop
men of the caravan
בני הגולה = exiles
This would explain the perfect aspect since being apprentice or graduating has an endpoint in time.
Quote:7.a member of a guild, order or class, +בני הנביאימ i.e. those belonging to the prophetic order I K 20:35 [...]More examples are given after:
son of a messenger = messenger
men of the troop
men of the caravan
בני הגולה = exiles
This would explain the perfect aspect since being apprentice or graduating has an endpoint in time.