Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Peter,

Yesterday I wrote:

Ps 42:5 looks like an odd form.

I apologize. i was looking at the English verse numbering and so not 
at the right Hebrew verse. The problem with Weingreen's assertion, I 
think, is that the Hithpael is not always either strictly passive or 
reflexive. Ps 42:5 is a place where it seems to have a more active 
meaning. Note this comment in GKC #54f(c) with regard to the Hithpael 
and reciprocal action: "It more often indicates an action less 
directly affecting the subject, and describes it as performed with 
regard to or for oneself, in own's own special interest. Hithpael 
(see Niphal #51e) in such cases readily takes an accusative."

A number of verse references are given at this point, one of them 
being Isa 14:2, which you have in your list of suffixed verbs. The 
same would probably be the case for Ps 42:5, if a repointing to Piel 
is not correct, as DCH suggests might be the need, among other 
suggestions. But the reciprocal idea of the Hithpael as described 
above seems applicable to leading others to the temple.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard


> >
> 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