Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Hi Peter, 

You wrote,

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> From: Peter_Kirk AT sil.org
> To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu; 596547 AT ican.net
> Subject: Re[2]: 1 Kgs 1:40
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 8:00 PM
> 
> Dear Bryan,
> 
> I'm sorry, but your reasoning is circular. On what grounds do you say 
> that the verb $MX is intransitive? 

That's intransitive *in the qal stem*.  Grounds: that it does not need ,
nor can it take a direct object.  In 1 Ki 1:40 the folks are not causing
great joy to rejoice as in, say Psa 19:9's piel participle _mesamxey lev_
where the statutes cause the heart to rejoice.  Whatever simxah gedolah is
in 1 Ki 1:40, I don't think it's a direct object.  There are other
perfectly reasonable explanations.
 
Shalom,
Bryan
> 
> 

B. M. Rocine
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