Dear Alviero,
Randall Buth also pointed out that the verbs I labelled
qatals are participles in the MT. Thanks, both. I confess
I was reading Esther in an unpointed text and jumped to a
tenuous conclusion.
Re the "habitual" qatal in poetry about which you ask, how
about Ps 1:1 the verbs of which should logically display
concord with _yehgeh_ in v. 2? How about Ps 93:3, "The
seas have lifted (qatal) O YHVH; the seas have lifted
(qatal) their voice; the seas lift (yiqtol) their pounding
waves" or Jer 8:7, "...the dove, the swift, and the swallow
keep (qatal) the time of their migration"?
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