Biblical Hebrew Forum

["B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Warren" <andy_warren AT sil.org>
To: "Biblical Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2002 11:47 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] Re: BH TMA, Bryan, II


> Bryan, may I pick up a point from your correspondence with Vince?
>
> >My first reservation would be in thinking of HYH as a be-verb.  I don't
> >think it is.  I think it means "become,happen" so that hayu kotevim means
> >they had become writers.  ...
>
> > I think HYH is closer to Gr ginomai than eimi.
>
> > On the one hand, vayehi hebel ro`eh tso'n has little to do with
> > whether Abel is actually doing shepherding during the story time.  It is
> > only saying that he came into that occupation.
>
> What do you do with qatal and wayyiqtol forms of HYH such as:
>
> Gen 1:2 'the earth HAD BECOME a formless void'?
> Gen 2:25 'they both HAD BECOME naked'?
> Exod 24:18 'Moses took forty days and nights to get onto the mountain'?
>
> Forgive the absurd examples, but wouldn't it really be better to see HYH
as
> a stative verb which becomes ingressive in a punctual context?
>
> All the best
>
> Andy Warren
>
>
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