Naked Bible 161: Translating Genesis 1-11
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In Diatus
Diatus is a figure of speech where you have two terms separated by a conjunction and they work together as a single unit of meaning. So one question is whether he dietists shows up in Genesis. And so if you think it's a in diatus, then you're more likely to paraphrase that structure and say something like the revised English Bible does, a vast waste. But having thought about the different ways languages can connect words and use them in parallel phrases, John and I came to the conclusion that this one and some other instances, two in Genesis wonder, aren't really examples of in diatus but are more like rhyming pairs.
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