I must admit, Dave, that that's not how I see the 'hole':
Basic G-stem Emphatic D-stem
Causative H-stem
active qal pi'el
hiph'il
passive qal passive pu'al
hoph'al
reflexive/middle niph'al (? hithpa'al) hithpa'el
hishtaph'el
As I see it the question is whether here was an original hithpa'al as a qal
reflexive, perhaps replaced into the hithpa'el as the qal passive was by the
niph'al. But the connection between the H-stem causatives and SH-stem in oher
Semitic languages is supposed to be strong. So perhaps the pre-NWS system had a
shaph'ala for a hiph'il.
That fits much better with the Arabic system:
Basic G-stem Emphatic D-stem
Reciprocating Causative H-stem
active fa'ala fa''ala
fâ'ala 'af'ala
passive fu'ila fu''ila
fû'ila 'uf'ila
reflexive/middle infa'ala / ifta'ala tafa''ala
tafâ'ala istaf'ala
In fact the N-stem can probably be better seen as a separate agent-less
passive pattern that replaced the qal passive at some point than specifically
tied to the qal.
BTW, we are speaking of the pre-history of Hebrew here - athough the qal
passive seems to be well attested in the Biblical text, the hishtaph'el was
obviously no longer a productive stem by Biblical Hebrew times.
John Leake
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From: Dave Washburn <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2013, 1:13
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hitpael 1st pers plural bow down/worship
On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 3:26 PM, K Randolph <[email protected]> wrote:
Ken:
>
>
>On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ken Penner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Do the following help?
>>
>>Joüon §59g: "In the light of Ugr. tštḥwy “she prostrates herself,” what used
>>to be considered hitpa̧ʿlẹl, represented almost entirely by the frequent
>>הִשְׁתַּחֲוָה to worship, to prostrate oneself, is most likely a Hištafʿel of
>>√ חוי."
>>
>
>
>From where does he get this?
>
>>
What you're seeing, both there and in the Jouon quote, is a grammarian trying
desperately to figure out what's going on with this unique word. It used to be
taught that it was a hitpa`el of $XH with metathesis of the shin and the tau,
and no clue why the waw. But as Ken already mentioned, Ugaritic has shown us
that the root is actually XWH and the stem is a hi$tap`el. Once upon a time we
had a grid of stems with a hole in the middle:
Basic Emphatic Causative
Active qal pi`el hip`il
Passive nip`al pu`al hop`al
Reflexive nip`al ? hitpa`el
Thanks to Ugaritic, we now know what goes where the question mark is. And yes,
it only survives in this one word in that language, too. That's an accident of
preservation, but I don't really think anybody can deny that the word exists.
--
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