Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

This is a good point about weqatal, Peter.  In BH poetry, the weqatal form
is not as common as in prose, and I would venture a guess that in Pss, at
least, most of them have an 'unconverted' qatal value.

Bryan

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> From: Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re[4]: ex 26 + 36.8ff, (36.29)
> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 12:44 PM
> 
> 
> I am quite happy with "tense" rather than "TAM", but I was just 
> wanting to forestall irrelevant arguments such as that the English 
> simple present is not really a present tense.
> 
> I was implicitly suggesting two different TAMs for Hebrew weqatal 
> corresponding to the two meanings identified in recent posts:
> 
> 1. The same as qatal, with we- as a connective only.
> 2. A sequential future, generally following yiqtol.
> 
> Peter
> 



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