Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Moon-Ryul Jung" <moon AT computing.soongsil.ac.kr>]

Dear members,

Is it the case (in the case of the strong verb, 3rd masc.)
that the prefixform is derived from y + suffixform?

This suspicision is based on the fact that

the prefix forms of quttal, hoqtal, hitqattel are simply

ye+quttal, ye+hoqtal, ye+hitqattel (where e in ye is shewa).

The prefix forms of qittel and hiqtil seem to have a pattern:

ye+qittel -> ye+qattel
ye+hiqtil -> ye+haqtil -> yaqtil

The remaining verbforms are qatal and niqtal. According to the
above observation, they should have been transformed as
follows:

ye+qatal -> ....->yiqtol.
ye+niqtal -> ....> yi+neqatel -> yiqqatel.

But I do not understand it. Could you explain it to me?

Shalom,

Moon
Moon-Ryul Jung
Assistant Professor
Dept of Computer Science
Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea