Biblical Hebrew Forum

["George Athas" <gathas AT globalfreeway.com.au>]

YIQTOL forms are certainly not solely future tense. They can definitely refer 
to habitual
action. However, the QATAL forms without prefixed waw should just be seen as 
perfect in
tense.

Best regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
(Sydney, Australia)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bryan Rocine" <brocine AT earthlink.net>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 10:17 PM
Subject: Esther 2:14


| B-Haverim,
|
| Reading, enjoying Esther...
|
| Esther 2:14  ba`ereb hi' ba'ah ubaBBoqer hi' shabah...lo'
| tabo' 'el hammelek...  "in the evening she would be an
| enterer and in the morning she would be a returner...she
| would not come to the king..."  Here we see the qatal used
| in what I call procedural discourse (how-it-was-done
| discourse).  It's set in the past and describes habitual or
| repetitive action.  Usually we see the "tag team" of weqatal
| and yiqtol in such a context.  Here we see qatal and yiqtol.
| So much for vav-conversive!  Qatal without the vav can refer
| to the habitual or repetitive in the history texts as well
| as the poetic.  Any comments?
|
| Shalom,
| Bryan
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| B. M. Rocine
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