Biblical Hebrew Forum

["John Kloosterman" <yemenim AT gmail.com>]

Mr. Fried,

Your pronominal explanations of Hebrew systems are fascinating; are there
any resources that detail this system?

Regards,
John Kloosterman

On 6/12/07, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> Pere,
>
> It appears to me that the form TIY is but the compressed combination
> of the personal pronouns AT-HI. It is used in place of ANI = AN-HI in
> such forms as RAXAC-TI = RAXAC-ATI = RAXAC-ANI, 'I washed (it)', in
> order , I think, to differentiate it from the accusative RXAC-ANI,
> '(he) washed me'. A verb followed by a personal pronoun is chosen in
> Hebrew to indicate past action, to wit:
> RAXAC-TI = RAXAC-ATI, I washed
> RAXAC-TA = RAXAC-ATA, you (male, singular) washed
> RAXAC-T = RAXAC-AT, you (female, singular) washed
> RAXAC, he washed
> RAXAC-AH = RAXAC-HI, she washed
> RAXAC-NU = RAXAC-ANU, we washed
> RAXAC-TEM = RAXAC-ATEM, you (male, plural) washed
> RAXAC-TEN = RAXAC-ATEN, you (female, plural) washed
> RAXAC-U = RAXAC-HU, they washed,
> while a personal pronoun followed by a verb is selected in Hebrew to
> indicate intended action, to wit:
> TI-RXAC, you (male, singular) will wash
> TI-RXAC-YI = TI-RXAC-HI, you (female, singular) will wash
> etc.
> To indicate membership in a group, Hebrew adds a personal pronoun
> standing for the member to the group's name, for example ISRAELI =
> ISRAEL-HI for a male Israelite = Israel-ite, and ISRAELIT = ISRAEL-HI-
> AT for female Israelite. If a name ends already in a personal pronoun
> (or what appears to be a personal pronoun) such as the city of (AZAH
> = AZ-HA = AZ-HI, 'the strong one', Hebrew will drop the -H and
> substitute ATI for it, to wit: HA-(AZA-TIY of Joshua 13:3. Instead of
> ATI the personal pronoun ANI may also be used as in AXIYAH HA-$IYLO-
> NIY, 'Ahijah the prophet of Shiloh', mentioned in 1 Kings 11:29.
> Prersent day Hebrew makes extensive use of the feminine ending IYT as
> a diminutive, for instance, QAP, 'table spoon', but QAPIYT = QAP-HI-
> AT, 'tea spoon'. ATI is also extensively used in reference to a
> property holder, for instance, from (EDAH, 'community', Hebrew
> derives (ADATIY, 'communal, ethnic', and then (ADATIYUT = (AD-AT-HI-
> HU-AT.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:51 AM, <pporta AT oham.net> <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:
>
> > Dear listers,
> >
> > Does any of you know if in biblical Hebrew a word ending -TIY can/
> > may be
> > something different from a 1st person singular of the past tense?
> >
> > Pere Porta
> >
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