Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

1. What is this "stem" thing?

2. Of course it is conjunctive: Every end is followed by an and.

3. True. Every moment is the "beginning of a new state" (following a  
fleeting moment of "inception"). First (state 1) Yhudah is a few  
steps away, then he suddenly (new state 2 materializes, becomes = be- 
comes real) steps forward, WAYIGA$ = WA-YI-GA$ = BA-HI-GA$ Ge. 44:18.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

> isaac,
>
> 1. indeed, as uri hurwitz explained, root+stem.
>
> > > > Am I right in thinking that by "origin" you mean root?
>
> 2. so many things look wrong in your BA theory that i dont know  
> where to start.
>
> a) what is the function?
>
> i dont think BA was ever used in the OT in the sense of "came to be".
> maybe in sanskrit - even there, more "be" than "came"...even in  
> english, "came
> to be" is usually followed by an adjective, not a noun.
>
> b) most wayiqtol units are also conjunctive, i.e. the vav is also  
> used as
> "and". but in your model there is no room for "and".
>
> indeed, in most leading verb units the vav does not appear, and  
> wayiqtol is
> not used, although your "explanation" would predict them to have  
> the same
> putative "came to be"-->BA-->va.
>
> c) your BA="came to be" is what is called inceptive: the beginning  
> of a new
> state. but wayiqtol is used also on so many other situation, for  
> example,
> many transitive verbs: WYK, WY$LK, WYS) (carry) where the inceptive  
> doesnt
> make much sense.
>
> d) what is the form?
>
>  HU is -HI, HI is -TA, HEM is -U:
>
>                who is who?
>
> nir cohen
>
> > > > De: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
> Cópia: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Para: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
> Data: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:00:37 -0500
> Assunto: Re: [b-hebrew] suffixes
>
> 2. In the form WA-YE-BK ויבך of Gen. 27:38 the "suffixed" personal
> pronoun for the
> actor of the act BK is instead "infixed" (or "suffixed-prefixed"):
> BA-HI-BK בא-היא-בך where WA = BA is 'came to be', as in the
> previous
> WAYISA = BA-HI-SA בא-היא-שא
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:
>
> > 2. the word you chose is one of the most difficult and irregular. i
> > can
> > provide several contradicting conjectures to its origin.  however,
> > it is clear
> > that the transformation H$TXWH --> WY$TXW is the so-called "short
> > form" obtained by removing the final H, just as $TH --> WY$T or
> > BKH --> WYBK.
>
>
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