Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Paul Zellmer <zellmer AT cag.pworld.net.ph>]

It appears to me that the YiHYeH ... NfKoWN ... W:Ni&&f) in Micah
4:1 is a
compound periphrastic.  The parallel passage in Is 2:2 has the
first participle
preceding the yiqtol.  Generally I interpret this periphrastic as
clearly placing the durative concept of the participle in future
time and a distribution of the yiqtol of HfYfH over both
participles [hence "compound"].  (I could be all wet here, but I
don't think so.  We see a
similar construction in Ex 26:3.  Of course, I would have liked
to have seen a qatal + participle in Ex 36:10, but there's a
wayyiqtol instead.)  My question:  Can a periphrastic
construction have the participle *precede* the "helping verb," as
appears to be the case in Is 2:2?  If so, what is the
significance?  Is it focussing (or, to use Bryan's terminology,
topicalizing) the activity expressed by the participle?

Also, in the Micah passage, for this to be periphrastic, we have
the verb and the first participle split by the subject.  Now, I
realize
this is a common construction in Greek, but isn't it unusual in
the Hebrew?  What significance do you make of the Micah
construction?

Paul

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