Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

Pere,

I teach my students that if a stem (binyan) has an intrinsic prefix (example, 
נ for Niphal; ה for Hiphil, Hophal, etc.), then when you remove a subject 
prefix (example, the י of 3ms or ת of 3fs/2ms) a ה will appear, regardless of 
what the intrinsic prefix was. Now, this is something of a cheat-method but 
I've found it works. Whether there is anything specifically encoded into 
Hebrew, I'm not sure. In other words, is the memory hook I teach my students 
indicative of what actually happens across all stems, or is the Niphal 
totally anomalous in gaining an unexpected ה?

I'm not sure.


GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au


From: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com<mailto:pporta7 AT gmail.com>>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 07:53:31 +0200
To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org<mailto:b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Nobody knows?

Some days ago I sent to this list a post asking for the reason of the
dagesh in the first root consonant in the Niph'al Infinitives.

Realizing the list members silence and not-answering...  must I think that
nobody knows which the answer to this question is?

Nobody has here an answer   -at least a possible one-  to this question?

Regards

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)


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