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Students of Biblical Hebrew know that Bruce K. Waltke and Michael P. O’Connor’s An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax is a standard intermediate reference grammar for Biblical Hebrew. William D. Barrick has built on their work by providing a commentary that works through all forty chapters of this important Hebrew grammar. Comments on Waltke and O’Connor, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew...

and O’Connor explain, syntactic modifiers may be responsible for making the qatal refer to punctiliar (.), frequentative (.…), durative (——), inceptive (|→), or culminative (→|) situations. §30.2.3 (483): Note Waltke and O’Connor’s discussion of the fientive vs. stative and the static vs. dynamic. These concepts affect the understanding of a distinction between dynamic and static statives—see comments on §22.2.1 (363–64). §30.3a (483): Waltke and O’Connor distinguish between completed and complete
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