Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rolf Furuli <furuli AT online.no>]

>Rolf Furuli wrote:
>
>> The fact that 12 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate stress do not
>> have a future meaning and that 36 per cent of the weqatals with penultimate
>> stress have future meaning accords with Dave's suggestions above.
>
>Hold it, Rolf.  Are you trying to say that stress is a morphological or
>syntactical
>feature in Hebrew?  Isn't stress determined by the lexical form of the
>word in this
>language?  Are there any pairs where the same word is used in one place in
>a future
>sense (in your determination) and in a past sense (again, in your
>determination), and
>stress is different?
>
>Paul
>
>--
>Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran
>Ibanag Translation Project
>Cabagan, Philippines
>
>zellmer AT faith.edu.ph




Dear Paul,

Stress can be phonemic in Hebrew (e.g. BANU' - they built, BA'NU - in us).
Stress is not necessarily determined by the lexical form of a word.  In
most cases of weqatal with future meaning, stress is ultimate while we
would have expected penultimate stress.

Different stress, similar meaning:

Ezek 20:41 WE:NIQDA$TI,  ultimate stress, future meaning
Ezek 28:22,25 WE:NIQDA$TI,  penultimate stress, future meaning

Ezek 5:16  WE:$FBARTI, ultimate stress, future meaning (NB HFYU  with
future meaning)
Ezek 14:13 WE:$FBARTI, penultimate stress, future meaning

Similar stress, different meaning:

1 Sam 3.13 WE:HIGGADTI, penultimate stress, future meaning
Is 44:8    WE:HIGGADTI, penultimate stress, past meaning

Gen 26:10 WE:HEBETF, ultimate stress, past meaning
Gen 27:10 WE:HEBETF, ultimate stress, future meaning

1 Chr 17:8 WE:(FSITI, penultimate stress, past meaning
Esek 37:14  WE:(FSITI, penultimate stress, future perfect meaning (after
qatal with same meaning)
Esek 37:22 WE:(FSITI, penultimate stress, future meaning


Regards
Rolf


Rolf Furuli
Lecturer in Semitic languages
University of Oslo