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  • From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Qal-Hiphil
  • Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:53:11 +0100

We have in Jb 1:5 a QAL Imperfective form of verb (&H, to do, namely "he
will do"
And we have in Rt 1:17 a HIPHIL Imperfective form of the same verb, namely
"he will cause to do"
The same could be said of verb (LH, go up ---> compare Gn 2:6 with Lv 17:8

1. Given the identity of forms (Qal = Hiphil) for this type of verb, time
and person.... are there any clues, is there any device -besides the
context, of course- to surely know where/when it is Qal and where/when it is
Hiphil?
2. Is context the ONLY way to know it?
3. Are there other verb types having a quite identical form for the Qal
Imperfect and the Hiphil Imperfect? If yes, which they are (which verb
type/s, which time/s and/or which person/s)?

Regards,

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)




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