Abstract
Dos esquemas morfológicos del imperfecto del verbo hewâ aparecen en Onqelos y Jonatán: yihwê y yehê. Aunque los dos esquemas presentan en el plural formas distintas para diferenciar el género, no sucede lo mismo en el singular. Según las estadísticas, el esquema con waw se utiliza poco en la 2.ª y 3.ª persona del singular, pero está bien atestiguado en la 1.ª persona del singular. Parece ser que el uso del esquema con waw en el singular lo determinan razones estilísticas y se usa para trasmitir una impresión de solemnidad. Se sugiere que el esquema con waw refleja el lenguaje del prototargum que se ha seguido manteniendo.
Highlights
STATISTICSA statistical computation of the one type over against the other is useful. Because of multiple MSS, some of which contain the counter-form as a variant and some of which contain midrashic pluses not found in other MSS, the exact statistical count may vary, depending on how one counts cases
The handful of cases where no clear stylistic conditioning is apparent and the fact that the waw type is the only form attested in Old Aramaic, Imperial Aramaic and Biblical Aramaic suggest that these forms are left overs from the proto-targum which were left unrevised
Two morphological types of the imperfect of the verb hewâ appear in Onqelos and Jonathan, namely yihwê and yehê
Summary
A statistical computation of the one type over against the other is useful. Because of multiple MSS, some of which contain the counter-form as a variant and some of which contain midrashic pluses not found in other MSS, the exact statistical count may vary, depending on how one counts cases. 116 of the Montefiore Library, Jews' College, London; d (in Onqelos) = MS Solger No 2 of the Stadbibliothek, Nuremberg; d (in Jonathan) = prophetae priores (Leira 1494); f = Codex Reuchlinianus; g = Romberg's second Rabbinic Bible (Venice 1524-1525); h = Biblia Hebraica, shelf mark I 1363, University Library, Freiburg i. There is a slight preference for the waw form over against the syncopated form for the ICS. The 3MS yehê is the preferred form, appearing about 99% of the time in our corpus. While there is a slight preference for the waw form of the ICS over against its syncopated counterpart, the waw forms of the 3MS, 3FS and 2MS are marginal as compared to their syncopated counterparts
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