Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peterkirk AT qaya.org>]

On 20/09/2005 15:41, Vadim Cherny wrote:

> ...
>
> Even Rolf mentioned that he counted less than a thousand examples of yiqtol 
> for past reference. This is tiny percentage of all occureneces. ...

Not "less than a thousand", but, to quote Rolf on 27th July this year:

> the 1,027 examples of YIQTOL with past reference

Also on 9th June 2004 he mentioned:

> more than 2,000 YIQTOLs with present reference


These figures exclude WAYYIQTOLs and presmably WEYIQTOLs. And this is 
not a tiny percentage. I can't find a figure for the total number of 
YIQTOLs in the Hebrew Bible, but it is not many tens of thousands.

On 20th August 2000 (in 
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/b-hebrew/2000-August/007965.html) 
Rolf wrote, relating I think to Genesis only:

> 37 % of
> the YIQTOLs and 64  % of the WEQATALs have future reference

So, it would seem that the numbers of YIQTOLs which are past, present 
and future by Rolf's reckoning are each of the same order of magnitude. 
I don't think Rolf has posted here his full statistics for YIQTOLs. 
Perhaps he might like to now.

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