From: "wattswestmaas" <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>
To: "B-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.Ibiblio.org>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Passive/reflex verbs don't take suffixes??
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:08:26 +0200
Hallo Members of the board,
Please could someone clear up a minor confusion for me, OR a mistake on my
part!
Weingreen (Oxford Hebrew Grammar) writes: "It will be understood that ONLY
the active verbs can take suffixes, niphal, pual, hophal and hitpael are
passives/reflexives and cannot govern an object..." he then proceeds to make
ONLY ONE exception (an infinitive construct, 'his being burned).
I read then prov 2:22 and discover a NIPHAL with a suffix. i then proceed
to check in Shoshan's concordance and lo and behold -- loads more niphals
with suffixes. gesenius also mentions prov 2:22 as being a passive
consttuction sentence.
What have I missed????
Regards, Chris - ireland.
[b-hebrew] Passive/reflex verbs don't take suffixes??,
wattswestmaas, 09/10/2004