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  • From: "Shai Heijmans" <shaih AT post.tau.ac.il>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Verb (haya) 'to be' - help
  • Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:18:54 +0200



Hi Trevor,

In biblical hebrew, you often have to choose between giving a simple answer
or an accurate one. This time I chose the simple answer.

Anyhow, my "misleading" answer wouldn't be necessary if your answer to Chris
had been perfect ;)

Shai Heijmans

P.S. - I still insist that the "shortned future" of HYH expresses mainly a
wish. Of course, it will be only logical that those forms in the paradigm
that have a vayyiqtol-like formation would express the past. But they are a
minority (indeed a large one, but still a minority) within the paradigm.






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