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[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

 Remark, Noam,  that the vowel sequence of this word "heyu" in Num 16:16 is
the same as that of verb (enu, answer (you, males)! found in Num 21:17.
Also remark that the usual vowel pattern for the Imperative of this kind of
verbs (called lamed-yod) is with hatef-patah in the first root consonant:
see in Jdg 9:15; Js 10:4; Zc 7:9...) and not with hatef-segol as in Num
16:16.

Regards,

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)



> >Fact: Num 16.16 heyu היו 'be ye' is not the qatal.
> >the qatal would have been heyiytem 'you were' הייתם.
>
> I'm sorry, I'm missing somethimg - it seems to me both היו and הייתם are
> qatal. What is היו if not qatal?
>
> Noam Eitan,
> Brooklyn, NY
>
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Pere Porta