Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>]

Dear b-hebrew listers,

 

In the Grammar section of our friend's Karl W. Randolph dictionary (the work he was so kind to let us know on this list), I read this concerning "Noun":

 

1. "Usuallly derived from a verb"

Is this true?  There are in Hebrew many nouns not derived from a verb. For instance, שמש, shemesh, sun; מלח, melax, salt; דור, dor, generation...

Fortunately, Karl himself writes also: "Not all nouns are derived from verbs"

 

2. Shegolate: wrong. It must be "segolate".

3. He writes that

-- Segolate are nouns that are spelled with the same consonants as a third person singular Qal Qatal verb

--but during the Masoretic times pronounced with two short "e" sounds following the first two consonants.

 

Can we accept this?

 

Noun ארח, orax, way (Gn 18:11) has two "e" sounds?

 

VERY IMPORTANT: My criticism is absolutely positive, looking only for the improvement...

 

Greetings.

--
Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Northeastern Spain)