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  • From: "David Stabnow" <dstabno AT lifeway.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: initial waw
  • Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:17:43 -0500



There are grammatical examples of verb-initial clauses without waw.
Niccacci and, later, Dawson (Text-Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew, JSOT
Supp 177, 1994, pp. 214-15) noted that direct speech cannot begin with
consecutive clauses (wayyiqtol or weqatal), but can begin with x-qatal or
just qatal. See, for example, what the people say in Judg 10:10 -- X+)NW
LK "We have sinned against You."

Dave Stabnow
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