Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Chris,

> 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.
>   Yep, it must be this cold that I have because i have made the most
> embarrassing mistake over this gen 21:32 - I really don't know what i was
> doing!!!!
>
>   OK what really I do not understand is the original question (prov 2:22).
> It is not niphal that I know (my head is a bit loose at the moment) BUT WHY
> the vowel pointing so far removed from the qal - I mean it coud'nt be more
> obnoxious could it?


HH: There is a Niphal verb in Prov 2:22, "be cut off."

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

>   I mean I get really super fed up after having learned the RULES, and then
> LEARNING the DEVIATIONS from the rules and then learning the deviations from
> the deviations --  just when i think that I am getting somewhere, along
> comes some irritating EXCEPTION to the DEVIATION from the
> DEVIATION!??!!??!?!?!?!?
>
>
>
>   Chris!
>
>
>
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