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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Isaiah 9:6 Wonderful Counselor
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:04:01 +0000

At 16:28 30/12/2004, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

participles are nouns: e.g. hu yoshev -- he is (in a state of) sitting.

Bad example to choose, Uri: have a look at this definition from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary ( 11th. edition 2004 }

>> participle: a word formed from a verb (e.g. going, gone, being, been) and used as an
adjective or noun (as in burnt toast, good breeding) or used to make compound verb forms (is going, has been).

And as for Biblical Hebrew, the several authors of A Biblical Hebrew Reference Grammar (electronic ed.) (Page 71) state:

>> In BH the participle is a verbal adjective that functions as a verb, noun or adjective.<<




Maurice A. O'Sullivan
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