Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Brak,

You are saying: Qal - he broke, Piel - he shattered, but I am afraid  
there is no biblical evidence that Piel is used to indicate a  
"stronger" action. Some verbs are used in the Qal form and some in  
the Piel form, occasionally interchangeably, and sometimes with  
shifted meaning, for instance, BACAR, 'gathered grapes', and BICER,  
'fortified'.
Spoken Hebrew makes great use of this, for instance, QA$AR, 'tied',  
versus QI$ER, 'connected', XAZAR, 'came back', versus XIZER, 'wooed,  
courted'.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Brak wrote:

> 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
> John Steven
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