Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Paul Zellmer" <zellmer AT digitelone.com>]

In Rolf's last response to Dave concerning the form of the weqatal, he
spoke of the WEHAYF in 1 Sam 10:7 and 10:9.  I assume he was referring
to the first words in each verse, which our "suggested" transliteration
scheme would spell as W:HFYFH, the weqatal form of HYH.  My question
concerns the one found in verse ten.

Why is it W:HFYFH here instead of WAY(Y)IHIY?  I see the variant noted
in the BHS, but isn't this form unusual enough to expect a qathib/qere?
Or is it so obvious that the corrected reading need not be noted?

Paul
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On July 20:
  1881  Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to federal troops
  1960  USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
  1969  1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11
  1976  US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian
landing

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