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Hey Chris how is it going?

Piel have basically four different semantic categories to help categories 
them.

They are factitive, denominative, frequentative, and declarative.

The fourth one fits Ex 34:7.

The word NAKAH according to HALOT in the qal means "purity, clean etc" in the 
niphal it means "to be free, unmarried, without blame, to remain blameless to 
be emptied."

In the Piel if we use the pure or free and apply the declaritive catagory to 
it.  We would translate it as " certainly do not declare to be free/ 
pure/clean the one who visits sin of fathers...."

And from their you can just translate it as guilty.  Make sense??

--
Kelton Graham 
KGRAHAM0938 AT comcast.net

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> I am really having trouble understanding this construction. Comparisons 
> with the three other scriptures where the first word (NaKeH) is used do not 
> help me to feel my way through to a solution. the second word is not a 
> problem (he will not be GUILTLESS) this is clear even to me. 
> 
> How can this first word be changed from its clear meaning of: 'guiltless, 
> 'pure', 'clean' into "Guilty"??? What makes this more baffling is the fact 
> that the modern hebrew definition of this biblical word (as given by 
> evan-shoshan) is 'to purify, to cleanse, to purge' (TiHeR); and to acquit, 
> to exonerate, to vindicate. (ZiCaR) and he lumps it with all the other 
> Piels 
> which express the expected meaning. 
> 
> I know that the answer is obvious to most of you on the board, but I could 
> not even begin to figure out where in the grammar books to look up since I 
> don't have the foggiest clue under what grammatical speciality this 
> construction would be indexed or viewed. 
> 
> Thankyou, Chris, Ireland. 
> 
> 
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Not sure if they're exactly what you're after, but both the two mentioned 
references below may be somewhere to start. The discussion, however, relates 
more to verb formation rather than nouns.

Verheij, A.J.C. _Bits, Bytes, and Binyanim: A Quantitative Study of Verbal 
Lexeme Formations in the Hebrew Bible_. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 93. 
Leuven: Peeters, 2000.

Bat-El, Outi. "Semitic Verb Structure within a Universal Perspective." Pages 
29-59 in _Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, 
Root-Based, Morphology_. Edited by Joseph Shimron. Language Acquisition and 
Language Disorders 28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2003.

Hope this helps.

David Kummerow


>Dear All
>
>Does anyone know if there are any books written on the subject of bilateral
>roots and trilateral stems. I am looking for an author that has detailed 
>the
>historical development of many of the biblical hebrew verbs/nouns that can
>be traced back to their bilateral root and shows how it has developed.
>
>Thankyou,  Chris.