[Avodah] tree of knowledge of good and evil

[Minden]

RTK wrote:
> Except that in Hebrew the word "es" appears before the object of a  verb.  So if tov vara were the object of the verb lada'as,  it  would have to say "eitz hada'as es tov ve'es ra" or "eitz hada'as es hatov ve'es  hara."

Not exactly, I'm afraid, in two aspects:
A. The rules are "more like guidelines", in other words, they're rather a matter of statistic likeliness, and
B. the rule is actually that only determinate nouns (those with the article and proper names) get the "es", not undeterminate. (Hebrew doesn't have intermediate ones like in English "life" etc.)


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