Biblical Hebrew Forum

["wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>]

Hallo Members of the board,

Please could someone clear up a minor confusion for me, OR a mistake on my
part!

Weingreen (Oxford Hebrew Grammar) writes: "It will be understood that ONLY
the active verbs can take suffixes, niphal, pual, hophal and hitpael are
passives/reflexives and cannot govern an object..." he then proceeds to make
ONLY ONE exception (an infinitive construct, 'his being burned).

I read then prov 2:22 and discover a NIPHAL with a suffix.  i then proceed
to check in Shoshan's concordance and lo and behold --  loads more niphals
with suffixes.  gesenius also mentions prov 2:22 as being a passive
consttuction sentence.

What have I missed????

Regards, Chris - ireland.