Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

> >You are not reading my questions correctly. I was asking for
> >a dialect profile of a verb "qbl", which would include any and all
> forms
> >with pronoun prefixes and/or suffixes, with or without vav, or a
> preposition,
> >and I was not interested in Hif`il forms, since that is a
> different
> >verb. I was adding 'L' in order to clarify that a Hif`il was not
> wanted in
> >the discussion.

Different stems of a verbal root do not constitute a "different verb."  If 
you claim they do, I 
hope you have some solid, tenable evidence.  If we're going to investigate 
the verb LBL, it's 
only reasonable to investigate all of its forms, not just those that favor a 
pet theory.

Dave Washburn

http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur