Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Galia Hatav <ghatav AT aall.ufl.edu>]

Bryan,

This is a wonderful argument.

Galia

>B-Haverim:

>
>May I make some comments:
>
>16:6 `ereb vida`tem...  "(sun-)setting: and then you will be the ones that
>know..."
>16:7 uboqer ur'item...  "and morning: and then you will be the ones that
>see..."
>
>These are interesting in their use of pre-posed temporal adverbs with
>vavved verb forms!  We, of course, expect yiqtol forms for future whenever
>there is an element pre-posed to the verb (like in v. 12).  Such a case as
>above is evidence, it seems to me, that the choice of a prefixed verb form
>versus a suffixed is not conditioned *only* by the presence or absence of
>an "emphasized," pre-posed element.   We are encouraged by such an example
>to think the natural thought: that a weqatal itself means something
>different than a yiqtol. These particular constructions utilize the
>attributive nature of the weqatal form as opposed to the fientic nature of
>the yiqtol.  I suspect the syntax sounds emphatic and perturbed in the ears
>of the congregation.  The knowing and the seeing of the congregation will
>be the sure consequence of the coming evening and morning.
>
>V. 13 compare:
>
>vayhi ba`ereb vata`al haslav...  "and it happened at the setting and the
>quail came up"
>
> and
>
>ubaboqer haytah $ikbat hatal...  "and in the morning the settling of the
>dew had come..."
>
>The quail are presented as "coming up" after the setting of the sun as we
>should have expected from the prediction that they would be eaten at
>twilight (beyn `ereb is just after `ereb).  In contrast, "in the morning"
>the dew had already come.  There is a subtle and precise chronology set up
>by the verb forms in these two examples.
>
>Shalom,
>Bryan
>
>
>B. M. Rocine
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