Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Doug,
Yes, I searched the whole shebang.
The lack of 2d person weyiqtols leads me to believe that they *cannot* be the 
only 2d
person form of volitive besides the imperative.   Initial yiqtol, x-yiqtol 
and weqatal
are "instructional" and "injunctive" and "obligatory,"  which, in my mind, 
mean that
they indicate the will of the speaker (thus, volitive).

Douglas L Kasten wrote:

> 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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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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