[b-hebrew] Verb Stems Confusion

LM Barre l_barre at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 15:48:55 EST 2009


No, hiphil is a causative stem based on the vocalic infix pattern.

 
Lloyd Barré
 
 

--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Isaac Fried <if at math.bu.edu> wrote:

From: Isaac Fried <if at math.bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verb Stems Confusion
To: l_barre at yahoo.com
Cc: "Jason Hare" <jaihare at gmail.com>, "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 3:00 AM



Lloyd,


You are right and may think of the hiphil structure as a root augmented by the two personal pronouns HI)-HI), one prefixed and one infixed, one for the instigator of the act and one for the beneficiary of the act.


Isaac Fried, Boston University



On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:59 PM, LM Barre wrote:


You cannot translate the hiphil form into English.
It doesn't *mean* anything.
 
This is wrong.  qatil (hiphil) means "to cause to kill."
 
Lloyd Barrécut


      


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