Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Jason Hare <jaihare AT gmail.com>]

Shoshanna,

I think you're thinking of the pual imperfect, which (if שפט appeared
in piel) would be ישופטו Y$WP+W. This isn't what's in the text. It's
simply a strange form of the qal imperfect, which I don't think would
be read as a normal qal imperfect consonantally (since even then
having a long vowel marked by a mater lectionis would be odd in that
position).

Regards,
Jason Hare

2009/2/9 Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>:
> Doesn't your suggesting mean "they will judge", and the text mean "They will
> be judged by..."?
>
> Shoshanna