On 10/9/06, Yitzhak Sapir wrote: > I would like to suggest a different theory. [... snipped ...] By the way, the theory also explains such forms as Exodus 15:1 ")z y$yr", because for the purposes of the description offered, the word )az "then" acts very much like wa "and" so both words developed "conversive" properties. Yitzhak Sapir