Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Brak <Brak AT neo.rr.com>]

Thanks for replying.
As previously stated, I'm just interested on how to translate it. So if 
a rare stem is a different form of one of the 7 stems, then I would like 
an equivalence given, such as polel = piel.

If one of the rare stems doesn't have a equivalence, I would like to 
know what the stem is in terms of voice and aspect - just like nifal is 
simple passive, piel is intensive active, etc.
Also an example translation of the stem would be spectacular. Like the 
following::
Qal - he broke
Nifal - he was broken
Piel - he shattered
Pual - he was shattered
etc.


B"H
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Uri Hurwitz wrote:
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>   Well, there is another way to approach this issue. Just one 
> example: 'Polel' is not another stem, but rather the conjugation of verbs
>  with medial Waw or Yud in the Piel, such as Qomem from QWM.
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>  As for 'H$TXWH' , since there is a 'XWY/H'  root in Ugaritic
>  (I'm writing from memory), the Hebrew stem would indeed be Hishtaf'el.
>  Indeed there is an identical stem in Arabic: 'Istaf'ala', still very much in 
> use.
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>   Uri Hurwitz                                                          Great Neck, NY
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>   George wrote:
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> The stems you haven't figured out are rare stems which have largely dropped out of use in Biblical Hebrew, or are relevant for only one or two stems. The Hishtafel stem, for example, is the only stem which the root XWH (or $XW - it depends on how you understand the stem) appears in. These might be older stems or dialectal stems, but they aren't used very much in Biblical Hebrew.
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> Regards,
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> GEORGE ATHAS
> Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
> www.moore.edu.au
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