To: <george.athas AT moore.edu.au>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Historic reasons?
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:29:17 +0200
In my study on Hebrew patterns I have remarked that as regards the Qal
imperfect 3rd person singular masculine or most transitive regular verbs the
Bible uses, in a general way, the short form (look at
www.oham.net/out/P-t/P-t189.html) more often, by far, than the long one
(look at www.oham.net/out/PI-t2/PI-t2-034.html).
But this seems not to apply to the book of Job, where the long form seems to
be much more usual than the short one.
I'm wondering whether there are any reasons (perhaps historic? others?) for
this.