Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

1. Where do you find WAYYIQTOL in the entire Hebrew bible?
2. Here I see a new tack: "can also be translated".
3. "he is on the point of dying" is no translation but paraphrasing.  
Why not "he is as good as dead"?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:00 AM, Rolf Furuli wrote:

> 1) Jeremiah 38:9 "the prophet... whom they have thrown (QATAL)   
> into the cistern,  and he is on the point of dying (WAYYIQTOL)"   
> The last clause can also be translated as " and he will die  
> (WAYYIQTOL).