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  • From: Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Verb Stems Confusion
  • Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:07:31 -0600

Brak wrote:
I guess I need to ask my question a different way.
By "how to translate" I mean I want to know the voice and form, plus a sample translation
So for the "big 7" you would have:
Qal: Active, Simple - "Bob broke it"
Nifal: Passive, Simple - "Bob was broken"
Piel: Active, Intensive - "Bob REALLY broke it"
Pual: Passive, Intensive - "Bob was REALLY broken"
Hifil: Active, Causative - "Bob was made to brake it"
Hofal: Passive, Causative - "Bob was made to be broken"
Hitpael: Reflexive - "Bob made himself broken"

So, can someone do the same for the "mystery" stems:
qal passive, pilel, tifil, polpal, hotpaal, hishtafel, and nitpael

If any are the same as one of the "big 7", then just indicate that.


l passive, pilel, tifil, polpal, hotpaal, hishtafel, and nitpael

HH: As far as I know, they all function as variants of the major seven seems, based on formal differences in the verb roots.And you could come up with other variants. Gesenius' Grammar (#55k) mentions a Nithqattel. It has a few others not mentioned above in #55d-g: Pu'ul and Pe'al'al and Pilpel and Hithpalpel. These are not semantically from the major seven but are formal distinctions.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard





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