To: "Ken Penner" <pennerkm AT mcmaster.ca>, b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] baccar l- "in distress"
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:21:13 +0100
At 09:59 07.03.03 -0500, you wrote:
>Taking BAC.AR in Is 25:4 as an adjective seems to make more sense to me
>than as an infinitive construct.
>Would the infinitive construct be Qal (if so, why no Holem) or Hifil (if
>so, why no He)?
It could be qal on the pattern of stative verbs (an imperfect in Pr 4:12
shows this pattern) and therefore have a patah instead of holem.
>How are similar phrases (especially the identical phrase in 2Chron 15:4)
>understood in HALOT and the database?
The database sees 2C 15:4 also has inf.cstr. Here's the list from HALOT
under the root CRR concerning this expression (B.3.c.): Dt 4:30 2S 22:7/Ps
18:7 Is 25:4 Hos 5:15 Ps 66:14 106:44 107:6.13.19.28 2C 15:4
What about an inf.cstr. with the article? A search in BibleWorks for an
inf.cstr. preceded by the def.art. finds only this phrase (Deut. 4:30; 2
Sam. 22:7; 2 Chr. 15:4; Ps. 18:7; 66:14; 106:44; 107:6, 13, 19, 28; Isa.
25:4; Hos. 5:15).
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