To: Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us>
Cc: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Changed <->NI$:TANFH how?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 07:09:35 +0100
Chris,
as you spell it, this is the so called "Nithpa'el" Past, third person
singular masculine, of those verbs lamed-yod having samekh, sin or shin for
their first root consonant.
Then, your word means:* he was changed, he changed himself, he became
different. *
It is a variant of the maybe more common pattern with H in the place of N:
HI$:TANFH
Unfortunately, no sample is found in the Hebrew Bible.
Remark:
1. This is not to be mistaken for a quite similar pattern of the singular
FEMININE we find, for instance, in Pr 27:15 (last word in the verse).
2. In other cases the first N means "we", not "he": but then the root
consonant after -TA- takes *tsere* and not qamats.
Hearty,
Pere Porta
On 4 February 2010 02:59, Christopher Kimball <transcriber AT tanach.us> wrote:
>
> How does the word NI$:TANFH come from the root $NH? I don't know where
> the initial N comes from.
>
> Chris Kimball
> West Redding, CT
> USA
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