[b-hebrew] Ps 90:8 (alumenu
lehmann
lehmann at uni-mainz.de
Sun Sep 26 10:45:58 EDT 2004
Karl,
I am well aware the context. Normally it's the first thing I do. My question was not whether the Qal passive participle fulfills what is deserved syntactically in Ps 90:8 or not. I simply want to know the reason for lexicographers to parse as Qal pass.pt, though there is not a single other Qal of this verb, and, in my opinion, even is very unlikely for semantic reasons.
(alumenu in Ps 90:8 (note the unusual writing!) fulfills the roll of the nominal qatUl pattern which, to be sure, is the same like the qal passive participle. So why make a verbal form of a root which never seems to form a qal? BTW: a similar problem is the root BRK, but it is actually not my problem.
Reinhard G. Lehmann
> Reinhard:
>
> Look at the context. In this verse it is being used as a substantive, like a noun. It is referring to the unknown things, the things that we want to keep hidden and unknown from others. The Qal passive participle fulfills this roll.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: lehmann <lehmann at uni-mainz.de>
>
> > Dear colleages,
> >
> > can anyone explain me the traditional parsing of (alumenu Ps 90:8 as a
> > Qal passive participle? The verb does not have any Qal forms
> > at all, and, in my opinion, it seems to be much easier to explain it as
> > an adjective
> > like (acum "strong" or (arûm "clever".
> >
> > Reinhard G. Lehmann, Mainz
> >
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