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3. Qal versus hifʿil Forms of יס"ף: Qal versus hifʿil Forms of יס"ף

  • Aaron D. Hornkohl (author)
Chapter of: Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew(pp. 57–88)

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Title3. Qal versus hifʿil Forms of יס"ף
SubtitleQal versus hifʿil Forms of יס"ף
ContributorAaron D. Hornkohl (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0433.03
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0433/chapters/10.11647/obp.0433.03
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightAaron D. Hornkohl
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-11-11
Long abstractThroughout the Hebrew Bible, qal and hifʿil forms of the root יס"ף compete in the meaning ‘add, do again’. Examining the distribution of unambiguous consonantal forms, it becomes clear that the qal form is the more archaic, the hifʿil common only in later forms of ancient Hebrew, biblical and extrabiblical, with confirmation from cognate sources. A whole swathe of evidence, however, is consonantally ambiguous. The stem morphology of prefix conjugation (i.e., yiqṭol and wayyiqṭol) forms can be determined only on the basis of plene orthography and vocalisation, and even then is often ambiguous. The discussion centres on the analysis of the equivocal data in light of the unequivocal, highlighting the importance of considering secondary processes and suggesting possible interpretations and ramifications.
Page rangepp. 57–88
Print length32 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Aaron D. Hornkohl

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Associate Professor in Hebrew at University of Cambridge
https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-aaron-d-hornkohl

Aaron D. Hornkohl (PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012) is University Associate Professor in Hebrew, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. His research focuses on ancient Hebrew philology and linguistics, especially historical linguistics and ancient Hebrew periodisation; the components of the standard Tiberian Masoretic biblical tradition; and that tradition’s profile in the context of other biblical traditions and extrabiblical sources. This is his third single-author monograph after The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023) and Ancient Hebrew Periodization and the Book of Jeremiah (Leiden: Brill 2014). He has also co-edited several volumes and written numerous articles.