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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

   No. 
   
   Please check again my previous post. This is a
 Qal imperfect.
   Also, please the note the that the root NTN 
(Nun Tav Nun) is one of those verbs which 'misbehave'
 or is irregular in the Qal.

   For example: in the perfect -  Gen 1:29; 
imperfect - Gen 12:7 etc.

    Uri Hurwitz                            Great Neck, NY

  




If the initial "n" is the first root letter "n" of "natan"...  don't we
have here a piel-shaped verb form (nit:nah) rather than a qal-shaped one?

For comparison, "dib:rah" (Jb 33:2), she spoke, or "shilhah" (Pr 31:19),
she sent away...

Pere Porta

2011/12/6 Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz at yahoo.com>

>
>
> -
>   Both.
>
>  It is the 'extended' imperfect ( 'moorakh'). Compare with the
>  second verb in the same verse "nashuvah". Note, the 'He' in
>  Mitzraymah  is locative.
>
>  Uri Hurwitz                                           Great Neck  NY
>
>
>
>  -- On *Tue, 12/6/11, Pere Porta <pporta7 at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>  Yes.
> Now, what do you think about the first "n" in "nitnah" (Num 14:4):
>
> --is it a prefix (for "anu")
> --or is it the root letter "n" of "natan"?
>
> Regards
>
> Pere Porta