Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Joel Stucki" <joel AT stucki.ws>]

On 7/9/06, MarjorieAlley AT cs.com <MarjorieAlley AT cs.com> wrote:
> 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
Correct. I am not aware of that vowel combination supporting any kind
of infinitive or other verb but if anyone disagrees I would like to
know an example. It can of course be revoweled.
Joel Stucki