H835

• {"n":"Psalm 1:1","s":"Blessed is the man. The Hebrew is a plural exclamation, not a description.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=psalm-1-1","r":"Psalm 1:1","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"All versions read blessed or happy. None renders it as an exclamation, because English has no comfortable way to shout a noun."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**Lucky him!** is not the same sentence as **He is lucky.** The first is something you shout. The second is something you assess. English can do both and the difference is in the punctuation more than the words."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Ashrei is a plural noun in the construct, closer to O the happinesses of the man who. It is not the same word as barak, which is the verb for blessing someone. The psalm opens with a cry, not a definition, and the Septuagint's makarios carries that into the Beatitudes."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English blessed is a participle and behaves like an adjective. There is no English noun you can put at the front of a sentence to mean how fortunate is the one who."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a verse opens with a single word that feels like a verdict, check whether the original is a noun. Hebrew exclamations often arrive as nouns and English converts them to adjectives without asking."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Every version agrees on blessed; nothing here is a rendering dispute. What needs correcting is the mental picture: readers routinely take blessed as a state conferred rather than a condition observed, and the grammar points the other way."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d0\u05b7\u05e9\u05b0\u05c1\u05e8\u05b5\u05d9 ashrei \u00b7 H835"}],"src":["ashrei elsewhere: Psalm 32:1-2; 41:1; 128:1; Proverbs 3:13","barak, the verb to bless: Genesis 12:2-3; Numbers 6:24","Septuagint makarios, the word behind the Beatitudes at Matthew 5:3-11"]}