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  • From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • To: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Ex 7:26 - let my people go???
  • Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 15:14:25 +0200

WHOOPS!!!!!!



Dear Chris,

That's a Piel imperative. The forms for the 2ms imperative and the
infinitive construct are the same.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard

>At the risk of irritating the board members I pose another question please.
>
>What appears as a 'good old fashioned simple command' by Moses has me
>somewhat bewildered. It surrounds the way in which the verb SHaLaCH is
>"chosen" to convey a simple statement. Infinite construct in the Piel
>stem?? I have to recall that only an Infinite Absolute can be used as an
>imperative, but either way can anyone show me why this straightforward
>verbal sense of "SEND" or "Let my people go" should be so (spoken) in the
>Inf Const piel manner. Some english translators translate as "send" others
>as "let my people go" how do we arrive 'grammatically' at the latter ( I
see
>that the verb take the direct object of God's people), if piel often
>intensifies the qal I do not see how we can intensify "send'; on the other
>hand infinite construct is a verbal noun (or taking the place of a noun)
and
>therefore both "send" and "let my people go" are difficult to justify.
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