10-08-2008, 06:46 PM
Mike Kar Wrote:Steve, Hey! Thanks for your reply. I am wondering from where you obtained your information?? Did you go straight to the Dukhrana site and go to Acts 2:33 (where it says "go to verses") and then scroll down to the very word where it says "This, These"(right next to 5249 - written in blue.) ??? I just want to be sure.
If so I am wondering if you noticed the grammatical from of the word says that, here, it is in the feminine-singular.
In a nutshell did you know answer my question pretty much right off the cuff or did you do some digging at Dukhrana?? BTW, are you fluent in Aramaic at all or to any depth??
Thank-you Steve,
Graciously,
Mike Karoules
Shlama Akhi Mike:
Actually I just looked up the word in the Lexicon here on <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.peshitta.org">http://www.peshitta.org</a><!-- m -->. Then I found some other passages where maohowtha is used and that used the feminine pronoun hada, and there it was. There are very few of us here that can do anything "off the cuff" so to speak. My mother tongue is English and I use whatever Lexicons or grammatical tools that I can find. If I don't know the answer, I will direct you to Paul Younan. Paul can parse words "off the cuff" so to speak. I think because you mentioned my name first, Paul and Andrew stood back to let me take a stab at it. It takes time and concentration, but if I can parse an Aramaic word, so can anyone else.
The work I did in transcribing the Khabouris Codex was not translation work. I just put two things together, the Khabouris Codex face to face with John Wesley Etheridge's 1848 translation of the Peshitta text. Lars Lindgren built the Look-Up "user-friendly" interfaces. Lars speaks fluent Aramaic so he's a great partner to work with.
I've always been a little shy of doing any serious translation of the Peshitta beyond personal study.
Shlama,
Stephen
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