The YHB root in Psalms 55:23 is, I'd suggest, not a Yiqtol verb form. The root YHB serves the noun for burden, lot, fate. There's also the primitive verb root YHB (give, ascribe, set) related to the same Aramaic root (give, prolong, pay). But in Psalms 55:23 the noun YHB *can* be related to the primitive verb, i.e., lot, fate is (according to Strong's) a preterite form, namely, what has been given.
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