Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

You wrote re Exo 16:6-7, 12-13 --
> 
> Another question - how do you know that the use of qatal in
> (1) above is 
> dictated by a desire to "go off-line" instead of by the fact
> that the verb is not clause initial for some other reason? 
> If the verb is not clause initial, what other choice would a
> BH writer have than the qatal in this case?
> 
> Another example:
> 1Kgs 15:13 (following a wayyiqtol in v. 12)
> wegam 'eth Maacah 'immo wayesireha...
> 
> which the chronicler modified to:
> 2Chr 16:15 wegam Maacah 'em 'Asa hammelek hesirah...
> 
> Did the chronicler want to demote this point to "offline" or
> did he just want to get rid of the redundant conjunction and
> therefore had to change the verb form as well (unless he was
> going to do more radical surgery and put the verb first)?