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[Ken Penner <kpenner AT stfx.ca>]

Do the following help?

Joüon §59g: "In the light of Ugr. tštḥwy “she prostrates herself,” what used 
to be considered hitpa̧ʿlẹl, represented almost entirely by the frequent 
הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה to worship, to prostrate oneself, is most likely a Hištafʿel of 
√ חוי."

Joüon §79t:
"Verb חיה: Hištafʿel form הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה to bow down, to prostrate oneself, to 
worship.
The original root is חוי, i.e. ל״י (cf. § a). The conjugation is hištafʿel (§ 
59g; not Hitpaʿlel). The form expresses the causative reflexive action to bow 
down, to prostrate oneself().
In the perfect the primitive form is hištaḥway. The future *yištaḥway has 
become יִשְׁתַּחֲוֶה (3rd pl. יִשְׁתַּחֲווּ). The apocopated form is 
*yišta'ḥw, in which the consonantal w becomes the vowel u: וַיִּשְׁתַּ֫חוּ.
Observation. In 2Kg 5.18 הִשְׁתַּחֲוָיָתִי the inf. has been vocalised in 
Biblical Aramaic fashion (wrongly, actually, for with the suffixes the inf. 
takes the ending ūt(). After a scribe had wrongly spelled וי, this sequence 
was later vocalised mechanically in the Aramaic fashion. One should read (in 
the 3rd pers.) הִשְׁתַּחֲווֹתוֹ."


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Subject: [b-hebrew] Hitpael 1st pers plural bow down/worship

Dear Members,

I wonder if somebody would be kind enough to direct me in understanding why 
the verb שחה in the Hitpael is often found with a seghol Heh ending in the 
1st person plural.

For example:  Gen 22:5 we worship....   נִשְתָחַוֶה when  
the expected is NiSHTaCHU  with the normal 1st person plural ending.   
I have Gesenius but it is hard to know under precisely what category of 
grammar I should be looking for because my searches for an answer have come 
up empty.  If he does mention it then I would welcome a reference.  Thankyou 
for your time. 
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