Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

while discussing preparations for the Hebrew immersion seminar next
month, an item came up that might interest the list.

matsati 'I found' is BH, MT.
matsiti 'I found' is Mishnaic, though I don't have data at hand to document.

The differentiation of the two morphologies does have something to
say about the MT tradition of BH. Even though the MT was
recorded many centuries after mishnaic dialect been in use by the
communities, it did not 'level' the morphology of BH into MishnH.
It is also true that Aramaic developed the similar -i- forms as Mishnaic
Hebrew. One may conclude that the forms like matsati are thus
non-Aramaic and non-Mishnaic. The probability is that matsati
represents a pre-Mishnaic, BH.
of course, the 'dialect' for the seminar will be MT based, so participants
will be expected to say 'matsati'. (Few/None would have considered matsiti,
anyway.)

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