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  • From: <pporta AT oham.net>
  • To: "Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>, "hebrew list" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is it root consonant?
  • Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 06:05:39 +0200

On 9/6/07, Pere Porta wrote:
>> > In YWOD"(A (Rt 3:11), it is clear that Y is root consonant.
>> > But, what about YWCAR, third word in Isa 54:17?
>> > Is here the yod a root consonant -or radical- too?
>> > This question is intended not as a byzantine one but in order to >> > make
>> > clear where to put this type of word (YWCAR) in the Hebrew >> > Schemary.
>
YS -- Yes, it is.
PP - Are you quite sure that the yod in YWCAR is a root consonant, namely
the first consonant of the basic YFCAR?
I'm not.
Maybe you will ask: And why not?

In Lev 20:10 (YWMAT) and Isa 28:27 (YWDA$) we have to paralel or analogous
verb forms (Huph'al imperfective, 3rd person singular) where initial YW is,
to my sense, clearly a prefix and by no means belonging to the root. So, why
would the yod/yud in YW of YWCAR be the same consonant we find in the basic
YFCAR (Is 44:10)?

YS - > Yes, you are right, almost.

Is 54:17 ywcr is 3ms imperfect so that y is not a root letter. I
think the w may
originally have been a root letter I think it's not likely. The verb
form is a Qal
passive. The verb type is a weak verb with initial y.

PP - In the tools I have at hand I read ywcr is a Hoph'al imperfect form. I ask: What is the difference between Hophal and Qal passive? Is Qal passive a regular or consistent conjugation?


Lev 20:10 is not comparable. It is 3ms imperfect Hophal. The verb type is
a weak verb with medial w (and this is why it's not comparable).

Why would they not be comparable? The inner structure of ywcr (Is 54:17) and of ywmt (Lev 20:10), of ywd$ (Is 28:27) and of ywsb (Is 28:27) is, to my sense, QUITE THE SAME. Even if the verb type where these words are built from is not the same.



YS > Is 28:27 ywd$ is 3ms imperfect Qal of a medial w weak verb:

PP - I do not understand. Why ywd$ (Is 28:27) would be 3ms imperfect Qal while ywmt (Lev 20:10) would be 3ms imperfect Hophal?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)




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