Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ken Penner wrote:
> QM in the Qal 3ms jussive is spelled with U rather than O (Genesis 27:31;
> Psalm 68:2; Job 24:22), unless Job 22:28 is an exception.
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> Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
> Acadia Divinity College
> Hebrew and Greek vocabulary memorization software:
> http://purl.org/net/kmpenner/flash/

It might be reasonable to posit that Genesis 27:31 has no waw because
it betrays a
short form (jussive, yaqom) that was later read as yaqum.  See
Rainey's comments in
HS 27 (1986), p. 13.

Yitzhak Sapir