Abstract
Throughout the history of the study of the primary stems of classical Hebrew, the most semantically elusive has been the D stem, the qitt?l form (Goshen-Gottstein 1985:278-283). Its complexity has been extended to the related stems of the D group, the quttal and hitqatt?l as well as to a num ber of rarely attested stems and variations. Though the traditional profile of the D as possessing an intensifying function is promoted in such widely used beginning grammars as Weingreen,1 and is reflected in GKC (1910: ?52f.), recent grammatical study has increasingly and convincingly moved in other directions. The modern r??valuation of the stem began with Albrecht Goetze (1942) and was furthered by the more detailed work of Ernst Jenni (1968).2 The history has been recounted recently in Waltke and O'Connor's Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (1990:396-400). In the revised view of the D stem offered by these studies, the function is viewed as being factitive when the G stem is intransitive. When the G stem is transitive, the D has a resultative function (Waltke and O'Connor 1990:?24.1.h).3 This differs from the causative function found in the H stem in that it expresses the bringing about of a state, while the H stem expresses the causing of an action. This analysis of the D stem will be accepted as accurate in the following attempt to build a profile of the D group that will delineate the functions of its primary members. The ultimate goal of this study is the understanding of the function of the hutqatt?l stem within the D group. B. Waltke and M. O'Connor (1990:?21.2.2) have suggested that a pro file of the Hebrew verbal system can be devised by identifying the voice of
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