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  • From: "Maurice A. O'Sullivan" <mauros AT iol.ie>
  • To: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Harold niphal suffix
  • Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:11:45 +0100

At 20:26 11/09/2004, wattswestmaas wrote:

but for example we have genesis21:32 a niphal
third plural VERB and prov 2:22 identical except for the sere underneath the
resh but nevertheless identical.

No, they are not identical.
You have overlooked the very feature which denotes a niphal imperfect form -- the doubling of the first root consonant.
This, as Lambdin points out ( s. 141 ) " is the most striking characteristic of the type in general ". Or as the Biblical Hebrew Reference grammar plainly puts it: >> The doubling occurs as a result of the assimilation of the nun of the Niphal with the first stem consonant <<

As has already been pointed out to you, there are no niphal verbs in Gn. 21:32 -- all three are Qual imperfects.



Maurice A. O'Sullivan
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