Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Friday 29 April 2005 00:00, Vadim Cherny wrote:
> Would anyone explain me, what's wrong with the most simple and evident
> explanation:
>
> waw usually serves as tense reversal device, but
> sometimes it is simply a consequtive?
>
> It is this ambiguity that likely led to developing a new FT form, derived
> from imperative mode.

What's wrong with it is, we can show more counter-examples than we can 
examples.    IOW, it fails to explain even a preponderance of the evidence.

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