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  • From: mjoseph <mjoseph AT terminal.cz>
  • To: "b-Hebrew Digest" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Deut. 32:37-38
  • Date: Thu, 11 Feb 99 21:16:08 -0000


In Deut. 32:37 there is a perfect/qatal/suffix conjugation verb XFSFYW.
which is translated unremarkably as a past tense, "they took refuge"
(NIV). In the next verse, though with a change of subject, there are two
more past tenses, "ate" and "drank," though the verb in each case is an
imperfect/yiqtol/prefix conjugation verb, YO)K"LW. and YI$:T.W.
respectively.

I'm not sure if this bears on the endless thread concerning the Hebrew
conjugations or not, but in any case I was wondering if someone could
address the question of imperfect/yiqtol/prefix conjugation as a past
tense, not so much generally, but rather specifically in this verse,
where there is no waw, consecutive or otherwise, and where the verbs in
question are found in a subordinate clause introduced by )$ER

Mark Joseph




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