Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

mornin' John!

but the qotel form in such cases is typically thought of as a noun, no? 
see W and O'C section 5.2.  you translated them as nouns, correctly, imo.

have a good one,
Bryan

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> From: John Ronning <ronning AT ilink.nis.za>
> To: Bryan Rocine <596547 AT ican.net>; Biblical Hebrew
<b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: participle for "what do you do?"
> Date: Saturday, December 19, 1998 10:16 AM
> 
> 
> Bryan Rocine wrote:
> 
> >
> > if the question is "what do you do?"
> > 'elmad `ivrit
> >
> > "what are you doing?"
> > 'ani lomed `ivrit
> >
> 
> Bryan, if you gave an exam question like this to your students would you
> expect them to make this same distinction (would you mark them down for
> using the participle in the first example?)?  If Amos were your student,
> I suspect he would use the participle:
> "I am not a prophet, nor am I the son of a prophet (verbless);
> for I am (or was) a herdsman (ki boqer 'anoki) and a grower of sycamore
> figs (uboles shiqmim)." (7:14)
> 
> He can't be talking about what he "is doing right now" since what he is
> doing "right now" is prophesying.
> 
> 
> John Ronning

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