I wrote:
It appears to me that the YiHYeH ... NfKoWN ... W:Ni&&f) in Micah 4:1 is a compound periphrastic. The parallel passage in Is 2:2 has the first participle preceding the yiqtol. Generally I interpret this periphrastic as clearly placing the durative concept of the participle in future time and a distribution of the yiqtol of HfYfH over both participles [hence "compound"]. (I could be all wet here, but I don't think so. We see a similar construction in Ex 26:3. Of course, I would have liked to have seen a qatal + participle in Ex 36:10, but there's a wayyiqtol instead.) My question: Can a periphrastic construction have the participle *precede* the "helping verb," as appears to be the case in Is 2:2? If so, what is the significance? Is it focussing (or, to use Bryan's terminology, topicalizing) the activity expressed by the participle? Also, in the Micah passage, for this to be periphrastic, we have the verb and the first participle split by the subject. Now, I realize this is a common construction in Greek, but isn't it unusual in the Hebrew? What significance do you make of the Micah construction?
Any help on the periphrastic question would be appreciated.
Paul
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Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran
Ibanag Translation Project
Cabagan, Philippines
zellmer AT faith.edu.ph
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