Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Douglas L Kasten <doug.kasten AT juno.com>]

Lee,

Regarding your post below, what did you search.  Forgive my ignorance for
not knowing the imperative counts of  Tanakh; not knowing such, I'm not
sure what your corpus is.  Could you kindly clarify?  I'm guessing you
searched the whole shebang--true?

Peace,
Doug

On Wed, 05 May 1999 21:56:04 -0400 "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
writes:
> Help!
> These numbers do not make sense.
> In looking at Alviero Niccacci's outline of volitives vs. 
> non-volitives,
> he listed weyiqtol as the volitive continuation of cohortative,
> imperative, and jussive. I did a computer search, and the results 
> are
> interesting. Can someone confirm them.
> Imperatives = 4288
> weqatals = 1129
> weyiqtol (2d person) = 69
> 
> I could not find a single volitive weyiqtol that continued an
> imperative.  There were 2 or three that showed result (Ps.144:5,6).
> However, there are hundreds of imperatives followed by imperatives.
> Conclusion: The imperative is continued by the imperative.
> 
> 
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