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Subject: RE: [b-hebrew] Hithpael and stative verb
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:54:29 -0500
> Can a stativ verb like taher be expressed as hithpael -
Stative verbs in the HtD binyan often carry an estimative-declarative sense:
to show oneself to be X, or to pretend to be X.
WOC 26.2f lists Ezekiel 38:23, 2 Samuel 13:5, Proverbs 13:7, Psalm 78:21,
Esther 8:17.
2 Sam 13:5: "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be sick" (HiTXaL), not
"make yourself sick"! ;-)
> since by doing so
> it would change from a state-of-being into an action, i.e.
> "he was pure" would
> become "he made himself pure", thereby losing its stativ quality ?