Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joseph Brian Tucker" <music AT riverviewcog.org>]

Shalom

I have tried to read through the past posts concerning wayyitqtols. I have 
tried to condense what I read into the following 7 statements. Please 
provide remarks or corrections based on your understanding of wayyiqtols.

Hainu Hach

1. The situations most described with wayyiqtol are one's with temporal or 
logical sequences.

2. The most noteworthy use is that it traces the mainline of the 
narrative.

3. All uses of the wayyiqtol have a sense of consecution. (Expect 
epexegetical)

4. In contrast to the suffix conjugation there are no possible examples of 
the pluperfect use of the wayyiqtol. (What about Num. 1:47-49 "…had said to 
Moses" or Gen. 12:1 "and the Lord had said")

5. Wayyiqtol represents a situation subjectively as Perfective.

6. Wayyiqtol may take on the range of meanings associated with the 
Perfective conjugation.

7. It is very rare that a wayyiqtol refers to a time other than the 
preceding verb.

Todah
Joseph Brian Tucker
Riverview, MI
music AT riverviewcog.org