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  • From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
  • To: John Ronning <ronning AT ilink.nis.za>
  • Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: participle for "what do you do?"
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 18:58:14 -0500


>What do you do (habitually)? is (as you put it) 'elmad `ivrith (like
>Ps 1:2b).

I still read/hear that as non-present in colloquial Biblcal Hebrew.
It's a great proverbial, though.
Randall




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