Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <gathas AT mail.usyd.edu.au>]

I replied to this on another forum, but thought I'd mention my reply here too.

Instead of seeing the word "ba'u" in this verse as a perfect, why not see it 
as a participle? Thus,
the IPP before it would simply be elucidating the subject of the object in 
normal style. Thus, the
waw-conjunction prefixed to "Sha'ul" would carry the force of "when".

"They were coming to the land of Tzuf when Saul said to his junior ...."

Regards.
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GEORGE ATHAS
 Dept of Semitic Studies,
 University of Sydney
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