Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com> wrote:
  <snip>
 
..."Finally, we should mention Hishtah.awwah, which in Ugaritic is
a Shafel form, so there the connection with Shafel is much
clearer (And yet, the presence of the Hi- prefix suggests it is
used as a quadratic root $-h.-w-w in Hitapel form, I guess)."

   Now  M.Held and others regarded this as an example of a binyan Hishtafel , 
 like the regular Arabic stem (binyan) Istaf'ala. The root, following the 
Ugaritic, is Chet Waw He, XWH.
  
 This seems possible.
 
  IMHP there is no Shafel in the Hebrew Bilbe. Mishnaic and later Heb. are of 
course different.
 
  Uri

                
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From: Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.it.canterbury.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] "Shaf`el" in Hebrew?
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Yitzhak wrote:-

>Finally, we should mention Hishtah.awwah, which in Ugaritic is
>a Shafel form, so there the connection with Shafel is much
>clearer  (And yet, the presence of the Hi- prefix suggests it is
>used as a quadratic root $-h.-w-w in Hitapel form, I guess).

With all the usual caveats about finding meaning of real words from
theoretical roots, if Hishtah.awwah was indeed a Hitapel form from
the root $-h.-w-w what would it mean?

Thanks.

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