Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 06:26:03AM +0100, Pere Porta wrote:
>  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)

segol is only a variant (allomorph?) of pataḥ, as can be seen from the
Babylonian punctuation...


> > >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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