Biblical Hebrew Forum

[dwashbur AT nyx.net]

On 14 Aug 2010 at 14:32, George Athas wrote:

> Karl, I agree. However, your statement amounts to the equivalent of
> 'these forms start with a waw conjunction'. I'd like to go a step
> further and analyse the significance and nature of such
> conjunction.

By a process of elimination, I concluded it's not a conjunction at all, but a 
grammatical 
formative that happens to resemble the conjunction in its consonantal form, 
much like the 
he-interrogative consonantally resembles the definite article.  

Dave Washburn

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