Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

Dear Reinhard,

Perhaps it has something to do with its singular 
number and impersonal reference. The other words 
you mentioned, the adjectives, normally function 
as substantives in the plural or with reference 
to people.

                                Yours,
                                Harold Holmyard

> can anyone explain me the traditional parsing of (alumenu Ps 90:8 as a
> Qal passive participle? The verb does not have any Qal forms
> at all, and, in my opinion, it seems to be much easier to explain it as
> an adjective
> like (acum "strong" or (arûm "clever".