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  • From: Dgahler782 AT aol.com
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Hithpael and stative verb
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 21:25:19 EST

Can a stativ verb like taher be expressed as hithpael - since by doing so
it would change from a state-of-being into an action, i.e. "he was pure"
would
become "he made himself pure", thereby losing its stativ quality ?
Thank you, Doris




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