Biblical Hebrew Forum

[K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>]

Pere:

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> Karl,
>
> in the last part of your post you write:
>
> "Do you know of any other examples of a verb listed in dictionaries with a
> consonant, waw, tau, which conjugate in qatal hiphil without the medial yod
> and without a second tau where normal conjugation calls for one? Absent
> being able to show a pattern from ......"
>
> Please what does "qatal hiphil" mean?
> Maybe by "qatal" you mean what I call "past"?
>

Yes.

But why do you call it “past”?  The normal way of referencing that
conjugation is to call it “qatal” because it does not refer to a tense.
Decades ago I was taught not to call it “past” because it doesn’t refer to
the past.

>
> Regards from
>
> Pere Porta
>
> Karl W. Randolph.