Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

And also the two different verbs may be seen in distinct forms of some 
Hiphil verbs, some Qal hollow verbs, and the distribution of 
third-person pronominal suffixes augmented with nun.

David Kummerow.

ps. Sorry for sending this twice. I only realised after sending it the 
first time that I hadn't given a 'subject'. I also added an extra comment.


> 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.
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
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