Biblical Hebrew Forum

[kenneth greifer <greifer AT hotmail.com>]

The hiphil form of the verb spelled shin het tav means "to destroy", even 
though it could mean "to cause to destroy" (I guess). If someone wanted to 
say "to cause to destroy" would they use the hiphil of this verb which was 
not used for that meaning or some other verb that means "to cause to destroy" 
or is their some verb that means "to cause" that would be used with the 
hiphil form of shin het tav? I am confused about hiphil verbs sometimes 
meaning "to cause to do something", and sometimes not meaning "to cause to do 
something", and what happens when you actually want to say "to cause to do 
something" and the hiphil form of the verb doesn't mean that.
 
Kenneth Greifer
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