On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Pere Porta <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear listers, > > I need to know whether in normative Hebrew one finds the pattern consisting > of three root consonants, the first having vowel hireq and the second having > vowel sere (and the third one having... nothing). > > I exclude from my issue the basic Piel form of verbs like NI)"C, to spurn > (2Sa 12:14), namely those having a guttural for their second root consonant. > > Does this pattern exist in the real Hebrew language, be it biblical or > modern? > > Kind regards > > Pere Porta > (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) > > Pere, behind your question I hear the valid observation about pi``al and pi``el. In antiquity some pi``el verbs were vocalized ibbad "destroyed", nittats 'destroyed' and some were vocalized like biqqesh 'searched, requested', hillel 'praised', shiHet 'corrupted'. Today, everything is 'regularized' into a pi``el pattern like shillem 'paid', while in antiquity the form was shillam 'paid'. We also have three 'segol' pie``el in dibber 'spoke', kipper 'atoned', and kibbes 'washed'. The pi``al, in fact, was a common type of pi``el. A verb, of course, was one or the other, not both or either, except for changes caused by pausal forms. Hope that helps Randall -- Randall Buth, PhD www.biblicallanguagecenter.com Biblical Language Center Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
