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 | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
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