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[<pporta AT oham.net>]

Karl,

I assume you mean to say 2Sa 22:30 (and not 28:30)
If so, then )RWC is a Qal form. The same as:
1. )QWM -- I will stand up -- Is 30:10
2. )$WB - I will return -- Jb 1:21
3. )MWT - I will die -- Gn 26:9

No Niph'al.

Pere Porta

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ecc 12:6: BWR


> Pere:
> When you think of all the happax legomai nouns and verbs found in Tanakh,
> then you wonder if a particular binyan can occur once for a verb used more
> often in other binyanim?
>
> A more important question, is RWC ever used as a transitive verb, in which
> case a niphal use would not be out of order? 2 Samuel 28:30 "For in such I
> run the squad…" looks like such an example.
>
> Karl W. Randolph.
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:49 PM, <pporta AT oham.net> wrote:
>
> > >> Then, Karl, in your view this NRC (of RWC) would be Niph'al Past, 
> > >> third
> > >> person singular masculine, with conversive waw attached to it?
> > >>
> > >> Pere Porta
> >
> > >
> > > Yes.
> >
> > > Karl W. Randolph.
> >
> > ____
> >
> > Are you sure that the Niph'al of RWC exists? I realize that neither in 
> > the
> > bible nor in modern Hebrew appears even one form of Niph'al.
> >
> > Conjugations Qal, Hiph'il, Pol'el, Hitpol'el are found ... but no 
> > Niph'al.
> >
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Pere Porta
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