A Phantom Verb: Yuttan in Biblical Hebrew

Raanan Eichler

doi:10.1093/jss/fgad011

A Phantom Verb: Yuttan in Biblical Hebrew

Raanan Eichler

The Zalman Shamir Department of Hebrew Bible at Bar-Ilan University

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

The verb 'to give' is pointed as hophal eight times in the Bible. The scholarly consensus is that these occurrences were originally intended as qal-passive, and that there was no hophal in original Biblical Hebrew. It is argued here that there was neither hophal nor qal-passive in original Biblical Hebrew: these occurrences were originally intended as qal, their subjects were indefinite, and they were intuitively revocalized as hophal when the third-person singular indefinite subject fell out of use in Hebrew.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	377-390
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Semitic Studies
Volume	68
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/jss/fgad011
State	Published - 2023

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Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
History
Religious studies
Linguistics and Language
Literature and Literary Theory

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A Phantom Verb: Yuttan in Biblical Hebrew

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