Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

> Dear Rolf and Dave,
> 
> Why do you think that the verb 'come' appearing after L:BIL:TIY is in
> qatal? Morphologically speaking it has the form of the imperative (second
> person masculine plural), which, of course, is odd.  (But not that odd
> since you would expect here a modal form.) I have not checked other
> versions, but the pointing in our version suggests that it is not a qatal.

Galia,
Of course you're correct.  All I can say in response is "Duu-uu-
uh..."  I feel pretty silly right now...

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"Ich veranlassenarbeitenworken mein Mojo."