Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Harold Holmyard <hholmyard3 AT earthlink.net>]

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