Biblical Hebrew Forum

["David Stabnow" <dstabno AT lifeway.com>]

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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