Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

>As I read Judges 6:29, there are two verbs עשה (%H which I found myself

reading as participles. This time, the Masoretes pointed these verbs as
Qatal, so this time I disagreed with the Masoretes. As in the previous
example in this thread, I read the conjugation as referring to the actor
more than the action, hence the participle.

Then the next verse has the verbs and נתץ NTC and  כרת KRT which I read as
Qatal verbs because here I see the emphasis on the action more than on the
actor.
Karl W. Randolph.>


The verb עשה is best as qatal. It refers to a done deed, past, not to
something that Gid`on is always doing or in the process of doing.
You may be confusing the effect of the word mi 'who?'. The question word
does ask "who" did it. But the verb refers back to the previous night's
events. They were not yet looking for a serial iconoclast.

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Randall Buth, PhD
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