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["Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>]

Dear Bryan,
Thanks for the list.
We may need to decide on a common understanding of the word
"continuation."
These weyiqtols *follow* an imperative but do not *continue* an
imperative, because the person of the verb changes.  Take Gen. 24:51 for
example:
Behold, Rebecca is before thee, (verbless)
take her (imperative, 2ms)
and go away, (imperative, 2ms)
and let her be wife (weyiqtol, 3fs)
to the son of thy master

As you can see, the imperative "Take" is continued by "go."  The jussive
"let her be" is volitive to be sure, but not because of the  imperative.
"Let her be" would just as well be jussive if the imperatives were not
there at all.  He could have said:
Behold,
let Rebecca be wife (weyiqtol, 3fs)
to the son of thy master

In my post I noted that out of 4288 imperatives (2d person), I could
find only three weyiqtols in 2d person that follow the imperative.  If
weyiqtol continues the imperative, this statistic would be impossible.


596547 wrote:

>  Dear Lee,
>
> Does the following handful (80-something) fit your idea of
> imperative continued by veyiqtol?  If so, it is only a
> sampling (my search made no provision for words which might
> be interposed between an imperative and a veyiqtol).
>
> Bryan
>
>  Genesis 24:51, 24:56, 30:25, 37:13, 37:20, 37:27, 38:24,
> 42:16, 49:1, Exodus 3:10, 14:16, Numbers 9:8, Joshua 10:4,
> Judges 4:22, 18:9, 19:6, 19:13, 19:28, 1 Samuel 9:5,  9:9,
> 11:14, 12:7, 14:1, 14:6, 15:16, 20:11, 28:22, 2 Samuel
> 10:12, 15:14, 1 Kings 5:6, 11:21,  13:7, 18:37, 21:10,
> 22:6,  2 Kings 5:5,  7:4, 7:9, 1 Chronicles 19:13, 22:16,
> 18:5, 2 Chronicles 18:14, 19:11, Nehemiah 2:17, 6:2, 6:7,
> Psalm 27:14,  31:24, 83:4, 90:12, 119:27, 119:34, 119:73,
> 119:88, 119:117, 119:125, 119:144, 119:146, Proverbs 4:6,
> 4:8, Song of Solomon 6:13, Isaiah 2:3, 2:5, 30:8,  41:22,
> 51:23, 55:3, Jeremiah 4:5, 6:4, 6:5, 8:14, 9:17, 17:14,
> 18:18, 20:10, 31:6, 31:18, 35:11, 40:4, 46:16, 48:2, 51:9,
> 51:10, Hosea 6:1,  Amos 4:1, Obadiah 1:1, Jonah 1:7, Micah
> 4:2 .
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lee R. Martin <lmartin AT vol.com>
> To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:56 PM
> Subject: Volitive weyiqtol
>
> > 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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Lee R. Martin
Pastor, Prospect Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee
Instructor in Hebrew and Old Testament
Church of God Theological Seminary
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