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  • From: Vadim Cherny <vadimcherny AT gmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Narrative vs Poetry
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:46:53 +0200

If you mean, wenalin, it uses past tense for the same reason it is often used in commandments: to denote the action as assured. The servant implores his master so strongly that the action is certain, thus past voice. Again, such usage is extremely common in Russian, but not in English, which account for the fact that most scholars refuse to see a so plain thing.

Vadim Cherny


Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

I would see $bty as a rare alternative form of y$bty. See also Judges
19:11, rd




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