Biblical Hebrew Forum

[MarjorieAlley AT cs.com]

In a message dated 7/9/2006 8:23:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, joel AT stucki.ws 
writes:


> Are you altering the vowels to reach this conclusion? The current
> vowels do not support an infinitive. They do support a noun with a
> preposition. If you disagree please sight an example of an infinitive
> with shwa qametz qametz. I would be interested to compare it.
> 

Joel ---

First, I apologize for a goof. I accidentally replied to Karl privately 
instead of on list, so he has already addressed this once.  I hope he won't 
mind 
reposting. 

You said "The current vowels do not support an infinitive," and that is what 
I was going by, as well. My various reference grammars (GKC, Jouon, van der 
Merwe) all give the paradigm for the infinitive construct as (l)q:tol --- 
shewa, 
holem. 

Using the vowels in the MT, this would have to be a noun rather than an 
infinitve construct, correct?

Marjorie Alley