Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Chris,
as you spell it, this is the so called "Nithpa'el" Past, third person
singular masculine, of those verbs lamed-yod having samekh, sin or shin for
their first root consonant.
Then, your word means:* he was changed, he changed himself, he became
different. *

It is a variant of the maybe more common pattern with H in the place of N:
HI$:TANFH

Unfortunately, no sample is found in the Hebrew Bible.

Remark:

1. This is not to be mistaken for a quite similar pattern of the singular
FEMININE we find, for instance, in Pr 27:15 (last word in the verse).

2. In other cases the first N means "we", not "he": but then the root
consonant after -TA- takes *tsere* and not qamats.


Hearty,

Pere Porta

On 4 February 2010 02:59, Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us> wrote:

>
> How does the word NI$:TANFH  come from the root $NH?  I don't know where
> the initial N comes from.
>
> Chris Kimball
> West Redding, CT
> USA
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Pere Porta
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