Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Dale M. Wheeler" <dalemw AT teleport.com>]

Kirk Lowery wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lee R. Martin" <lmartin AT vol.com>
>To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Cc: "Hebrew List" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 10:39 AM
>Subject: Re: Ps 119:163 - a "cohortative" wayyiqtol?
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>
>
>> Dear Kirk,
>> There are many of these wayyiqtols with he paragogicum
>> See these examples (all piel like your text):
>
>
>[snip]
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>
>> Also see the 18 examples of va'omrah:
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>
>Yes, these are good examples of the wayyiqtol + paragogic he. They also all
>begin with "WF-", that is with compensatory qamets, since the gutteral aleph
>cannot be doubled. So they are unambiguously wayyiqtols. In Ps 119:163, 
however,
>WA':ATA`"BFH begins with patach, which would be the normal weyiqtol (hence,
>cohortative with the final he).
>
>
>So do we say the scribes just muffed the vocalization, go with the 
minority of
>mss which have qamets? Or is something else going on here?
>
>
>And what do we do with wayyiqtol + paragogic he? How is it different from 
plain
>vanilla wayyiqtol?
>

Kirk:

Remember that strange double suffix tagged form, the first word in Gen 12:3 
that we
discussed some time back - WA):ABFR:AKFH   ??

Starts with a patach and has the -FH suffix as well...is this a parallel ?


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