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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Basic observations on WAYYIQTOL
  • Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:04:46 -0500

Dear Dave,

> I accept that Hebrew sentences can be verbless without being
ungrammatical. But what looks ungrammatical here is the absence or
elision of the personal suffix HINNEH. But re Gen 18:9 BDB mentions "the
suffix ... being not infrequently omitted". So perhaps this is not the
best example - it was simply the first possible one that I found.

Ugh. My BDB - along with all my other books - is packed. What suffix do you
mean?

HH: It would be an understood suffix for HINNEH , a 3fs suffix indicating Sarah: "See (her) in the tent."

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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