Hi Nir Thanks for the perspective, but I'm going to disagree with you on this one. It is a ms imperative. Remember that some verbs, especially statives, XZQ being one of them, have an "a" theme vowel in the imperfect, and this "a" theme vowel crosses over into the imperative. And XZQ does have plural imperatival forms as well.
Blessings, Jerry Jerry Shepherd Taylor Seminary Edmonton, Alberta [email protected] On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> 5. One interesting occurrence where both singular and plural > imperatives are used to address the same group is Hag 2:4 – “ ‘be strong > all > the people of the land,’ declaration of Yahweh, ‘and work.’ ” The first > imperative is singular and the second one is plural. It could, however, be > argued for this one that the plural imperative is directed not just toward > “all the people” but also to Zerubbabel and Joshua. > > "be strong" is not an inflected verb form in the singular. it is a > formula for encouragement which only exists in the singular. i cannot > think > of an english parallel, e.g. i guess that even "be my guest" can be > made plural. > > nir cohen > _______________________________________________ > b-hebrew mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >
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