rosends
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Why are there differences between nouns and adjectives? Did some "expert" tell you that? Where was God?I trust there is a difference between nouns and adjectives. I know of no other word like you have. Can you give me another example?
Do you have another example where the noun and the adjective are together in the same word?
Why is the "B" prefix in "bchol" ok with you to be translated "with" when the prefix actually means "in"?
Now you want another Hebrew word where the use of an affix is translated in a way in English which incorporates an adjective because in your opinion, the inclusion of the adjective changes the meaning? In Judaism, that happens all the time -- the Rambam's understanding of the phrase "som tasim alecha melech" (Deut 17:15) as "only a king".
The understanding of Lev. 23:40, ""U'le'kachtem" is "and you should [legally] take" though "legally" is an adverb speaking about a verb. But a few words later on "arvei nachal" which is literally "the river willows" is translated "the willows near the river".
The Zohar has an interesting Aramaic phrase "la al enash rachitzna" which is translated as "not in any man do I put my trust" with "any" being the inserted adjective-determiner. Of course, you might ask, "what is the difference between the blanket statement of 'not in man' and the other version 'not in any man'?" And I would say "the same as the difference between 'your intelligence' and 'your own intelligence'."