Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Dear Peter,
I'm always game for learning a new word.  It sounds like you are, too.

As for "vetitive," see Waltke and O'Connor p. 567, note 6.  "The
combination )al + jussive is sometimes called the vetitive (Latin veto 'to
not permit); e.g., R.J. Williams, _Hebrew Syntax: An Outline_(2d. ed.;
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1976) 35."

Bryan

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> From: Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: )al - yiqtol and lo) - yiqtol
> Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 11:00 AM
> 
> Please can you explain "vetitive". I (a native English speaker) have 
> never heard this word, and it is not in my large English dicionary. 
> Neither is it in the index of GKC, nor, from a quick glance, in the 
> sections on the construction in question, so it can hardly be a 
> standard term in Hebrew grammar.
> 
> Peter Kirk
> 
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