[b-hebrew] participle or qatal?

K Randolph kwrandolph at gmail.com
Tue Aug 23 14:03:58 EDT 2011


Randall:

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:

> Karl, there was nothing new or cogent in your last post.
> כל אשר אתה מביא
> לפי שפה זרה ומשפטה אתה מדבר
>
> הדבר תם ויכל
> ha-davar tam wayyikel.
>
> --
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I take it that this is your way of saying “Let’s agree to disagree.” and be
civil about it.

Karl W. Randolph.

BTW my memory, backed up by checking a concordance, indicates that כתב is
never used for “writer” in Tanakh, rather the word ספר is. However, in a
court, the ספר seems to have had the role of an executive secretary as well,
so there is not a one-to-one correspondence with the English word “writer”.


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