... As for the WAYYIQTOL of 1 Kings 18:38, in my view it is exactly the same form as in 6:1. As I showed in my previous post, the differences between a short and long prefix form in the cognate languages is a vowel after the first root consonant. The Hebrew YIQTOLs and WAYYIQTOLs are therefore short prefix forms, and I see absolutely no reason to view an apocopated lamed he verb as a different form compared with a full form. ...
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