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  • From: "B. M. Rocine" <brocine AT twcny.rr.com>
  • To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Judges 16:30 - Verb with no use, MY PROBLEM!
  • Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:15:23 -0400


Dear Yonah:

Certainly, the root HYH does not require the complement le- to mean "become." See Gen 3:22:

hen ha'adam hayah ke'axad mimmennu
"Look the man has become like one of us..."

Gen 19:26:
vattehiy netsiyb melax
"And she became a pillar of salt."

Gen 21:20
vayhiy robeh qashshat
"And he became an archer."

On the matter of a wayyiqtol of HYH specifically: We can't have it two ways at once. If HYH is a copula, it would rarely if ever move the story time of a narrative forward. If that's the case, the idea that wayyiqtol is a storyline verb is weakened. On the other hand, if we accept wayyiqtol as the storyline verb form, the idea that wayyiqtol of HYH must refer to a happening or an occurrence of some sort is strengthened. Wayyiqtol of HYH would refer to a situation that "completed" or "became complete."

Shalom,
Bryan


Yonah Mishael wrote:
I would assume that the form WYHYW ויהיו in Judges 16:30 functions as
most wa-cons forms do in a narrative—that is, it establishes this as a
part of the main story line, by which the author is providing primary
information. The point is the culmination of Samson's life as a fight
against the Philistines, the loss of which caused the destruction of
even more of his enemies than the entire period of his life had
realized. This is what I get from it anyway. I don't think it
necessarily has any "becoming" associated with it.

Wouldn't it be most common by the time that the Judges was penned to
express "become" with the HYH plus the L-prefix?

Yours,
Yonah


B. M. Rocine
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