On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 03:26:19PM -0700, K Randolph wrote:No. There are not. But causative stems with š-/s- are usual in many
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> Are there any other verbs in Biblical Hebrew that have this
> conjugation? Can you list a few examples?
semitic languages, e.g. Aramaic, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Arabic, Geez.
No, it isn't. Show me another example of a triliteral root in any
> If not, Biblical Hebrew does have a few quadriliteral roots, and this
> follows the pattern of being one, namely שחוה $XWH, used only in Hitpael.
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> There appear to be a few uses of the root שחה $XH in the Hitpael. Its form
> is very similar to שחוה $XWH.
semitic language being extended by a consonantal W between the 2nd and
3rd radical...
This is simply nonsense, it doesn't happen in the semitic languages.
How?
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> > Observation. In 2Kg 5.18 הִשְׁתַּחֲוָיָתִי the inf. has been vocalised in
> > Biblical Aramaic fashion (wrongly, actually, for with the suffixes the inf.
> > takes the ending ūt(). After a scribe had wrongly spelled וי, this sequence
> > was later vocalised mechanically in the Aramaic fashion. One should read
> > (in the 3rd pers.) הִשְׁתַּחֲווֹתוֹ."
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> Does he have any documentation to back up this claim?
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> This verse reads quite well as written using an unpointed text.
Petr Tomasek
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