Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>]

Dear Peter,

> Weingreen is almost but not completely correct. From a search of the 
> Westminster Hebrew Morphology, not the latest version, I found just 
> 9 cases in the Hebrew Bible of an object suffix on a nifal, hophal 
> or hithpael finite verb (none for pual). I restricted the search to 
> finite verbs ("perfect", "imperfect", vav consecutive and 
> imperative). Here are the results of my search of the raw database:
>
> ...>grep "\@v[nPHt][piwv].*X[0-9]" *.wts
> *** FILE 02ex.wts:
> ex20:5,4.1 TF(FB:D/"^M^ (BD@vHi2msX3mp
> ex23:24,4.1 TF^(FB:D/"^M (BD@vHi2msX3mp
>
> *** FILE 05dt.wts:
> dt5:9,4.1 TF(FB:D/"^M^ (BD@vHi2msX3mp
> dt13:3,13.2 NF^(FB:D/"^M (BD@vHi1cpX3mp{1}Cm
>
> *** FILE 102s.wts:
> 2s21:5,8.1 NI$:MA^D:NW. $MD@vnp3msX1cp
>
> *** FILE 19ps.wts:
> ps42:5,9.1 )ED.AD./"^M D.DH@vti1csX3mp
> ps109:3,4.2 Y.I^L.FX:AM^W./NIY LXM_1@vnw3mpX1cs
>
> *** FILE 23is.wts:
> is14:2,5.2 HI^T:NAX:AL^W./M NXL@vtp3cpX3mp{2}
> is44:21,11.1 TIN.F$/"^NIY N$H@vni2msX1cs


HH: A lot of these seem a peculiar form of the Qal rather than a 
Hophal (Ex 20:5; Dt 5:9; Ex 23:24; Dt 13:3. So Keil, citing Ewald 
#251d, and see also GKC #60b. Gesenius guesses that the Masoretes may 
have intended a Hophal, but I think it is a Qal. While BDB list these 
as Hophals, they cite several authorities who take them as Qals.

There seem to be anomalies elsewhere, though I don't have time now to 
check (Ps 42:5 looks like an odd form; Is 44:21 is given a variant 
understanding (not as a Niphal) in GKC #117x.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

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