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  • From: Chris Watts <dekruidnootjes AT eircom.net>
  • To: Petr Tomasek <tomasek AT etf.cuni.cz>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Ex 6:6 hiphil imperative 'bring'
  • Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:22:16 +0100

Well the Tav is there because it indicates the 2nd person plural. I know that there is the הוציא and the הוצאתי. I am not a grammarian, neither a student nor learned in cognate languages or historical development. But the lexicon clearly says it is an imperative and I can not see it any other way, it is impossible to be an ordinary hiphil perfect.

By the way, indicative means indicating, indicative is a verbal noun. I could have said: This indicates that this is an imperative" But this sentence is long, so I wrote: "it is indicative of an imperative".


Chris Watts
Ireland



On 9 Jul 2013, at 11:29, Petr Tomasek wrote:

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 11:22:06AM +0100, Chris Watts wrote:
Hallo Pere, well firstly I recognised that the heh holem vav is
indicative of an imperative and the heh a hiphil, then the tsere
under the tsadi instead of a hireq. I was surprised so I checked B.
Davidsons's hebrew analytical lexicon and there is written this word
idicating it as an imperative hiphil? Also I checked my personal
grammar under the assumption that this verb would qualify as a Pe Vav/
Pe Yod.

Chris Watts
Ireland

But how would you explain the presence of the -תי ending?

Petr Tomasek

BTW. What do you mean by "indicative of an imperative"?
To me this sounds like an oxymoron.






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