but for example we have genesis21:32 a niphal
third plural VERB and prov 2:22 identical except for the sere underneath the
resh but nevertheless identical.
No, they are not identical.
You have overlooked the very feature which denotes a niphal imperfect form
-- the doubling of the first root consonant.
This, as Lambdin points out ( s. 141 ) " is the most striking
characteristic of the type in general ". Or as the Biblical Hebrew
Reference grammar plainly puts it: >> The doubling occurs as a result of
the assimilation of the nun of the Niphal with the first stem consonant <<
As has already been pointed out to you, there are no niphal verbs in Gn.
21:32 -- all three are Qual imperfects.
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
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a thing, to allow that you do not know it: This is knowledge."
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