As an adjective, is בטמא singular or plural, masculine or femenine?
(And would it have any tense, or aspect, like complete or incomplete?)
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Re: בטמא
Where is this found as an adjective?MGWB wrote:As an adjective, is בטמא singular or plural, masculine or femenine?
Everywhere that I’ve found, it’s a prefixed ב on what would probably be a gerund in English.
If it is an adjective, it would have neither tense nor aspect, as those are properties of verbs, not adjectives.MGWB wrote:(And would it have any tense, or aspect, like complete or incomplete?)
If it is a verb, Biblical Hebrew verbs didn’t have tense, as shown also by Dr. Rolf Furuli’s dissertation. Nor do they have aspect (another measure of time) which can be demonstrated, rather the conjugations seem partially modal, and partially ???
Karl W. Randolph.