Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 09/03/2007 23:11, Rolf Furuli wrote:
> Dear Peter,
>
> Every Thursday and Friday I am fully occupied at the University. After 
> finishing my schedule I rceived your post, and I have to give a comment:
> You are wrong, and Karl is right. The WEYIQTOL  and the WAYYIQTOL  cannot be 
> distinguished in unpointed texts, since both can be apocopated. If you do 
> not accept this, please give one single example of where they are distinct.
>
>   
Rolf, unfortunately I don't have the Bible study tools to prove this, 
but I think you will find that the large majority of WAYYIQTOLs which 
can be apocopated are apocopated, whereas the majority of WEYIQTOLS 
which can be apocopated, except for those with jussive meaning, are NOT 
apocopated. But I accept that there are exceptions to this rule.

If you, or anyone, has any statistics relevant to this, I would be 
interested to see them.

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