Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 3/8/07, Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 08/03/2007 18:02, Isaac Fried wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > Could you supply us, please, with some examples where "... some
> > WEYIQTOLs may have been mis-pointed as WAYYIQTOL."
> >
> Isaac, this is something that we can probably never be sure of in any
> individual cases. But if Rolf gives examples of WAYYIQTOL in cases like
> "1) conative situations (attempts that were not carriedout), 2)
> ingressive events (the event starts and continues without reaching the
> end, and 3) intersection of one event by another", and there is no other
> clear explanation, I might suggest this as an explanation.

Perhaps another example is Ez 18:28, where the text reads wyr)h wy$wb
and probably suggests a long verb (imperfect) for both yr)h and y$wb, but
the vocalization analyzes the first with a gemination in the y (reminiscent of
short verb / preterite) and the second with a qamats under the shin (again,
reminiscent of a short verb / preterite -- the long verb form would have a
long u: after the shin).  Thus, the consonantal text departs from the previous
past tense but the vocalization continues this past tense.

Yitzhak Sapir