Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Kirk,
There are many of these wayyiqtols with he paragogicum
See these examples (all piel like your text):
Deut. 1:16
Deut. 1:18
Neh. 7:2
Ps. 7:5
Ps. 73:16
Ps. 119:106
Ps. 119:147
Jer. 32:13
Ezek. 16:8
Dan. 8:15
Also see the 18 examples of va'omrah:
Jdg. 6:10
Ezr. 8:28
Ezr. 9:6
Neh. 5:7
Neh. 5:8
Neh. 5:13
Neh. 6:11
Neh. 13:9
Neh. 13:11
Neh. 13:17
Neh. 13:19
Neh. 13:21
Neh. 13:22
Dan. 9:4
Dan. 10:16
Dan. 10:19
Dan. 12:8
Lee R. Martin

KELowery AT cs.com wrote:

> How does one understand the morphology of WA':ATA`"BFH
>
> in Ps 119:163:
>
> $EQER &FN"'TIY WA':ATA`"BFH T.OWRFT:KF 'FHFB:T.IY
> "Falsehood I hate and abhor; your Torah I love."
>
> >From a strictly morphological viewpoint, it looks like a piel cohortative 
> >1cs
> from T`B. Yet GKC 108g cites this very verse as an example of a "he 
> paragogicum"
> added to a waw-consecutive! And cites the form with a waw-qamets (which
> apparently some mss have, but not L/BHS), which would be unambiguously
> wayyiqtol, albeit with a final he which is difficult to explain. Then 
> there's
> Waltke&O'Connor (pg 576-77), who, although they do not cite this verse, 
> speak of
> "pseudo-cohortatives" followed by some very unclear discussion of the 
> phenomena.
> The translations typically treat it as if it were a perfect, since the 
> other two
> verbs are perfects.
>
> So:
>
> 1. morphologically, what is it?
>
> 2. syntactically and semantically, what is its function?
>
> And why not just have expressed it with a perfect in the first place? (I.e.,
> what change in meaning, if any, is signaled by the "cohoratative" here?)
>
> Blessings,
>
> Kirk
>
> P.S. Evidently there are about 90 or so cases of this type of phenomenon,
> according to the standard authorities. So the case here is not unique.
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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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